Interpersonal Skills at My Mentorship

Culture/Collegiality
        Different teachers and other employees are always helping each other out at my mentorship. Most of the time, this interaction is between teachers within the same department. The math teachers are always working together by sharing lesson plans and ideas, planning a unit, and creating tests and quizzes. Teachers from other departments interact together by watching each others classes when one of them needs a restroom break. All teachers also interact with other employees, such as the janitors. The teachers always try to show their thanks in some way to the janitors for the hard work that they do. The employees are very sociable, and they do not always discuss about their jobs. These are the kinds of employees that I would like to work with. I would like to work with someone who would help me out with my job while also being able to casually talk to me.

Collaboration
        Teachers within the same department constantly collaborate. They plan out the year and plan out how to improve CRCT scores. They also create quizzes and tests together, and they discuss which classes students should be placed in. Teachers from other departments also work together to plan out the events of the year and to plan out how to improve test scores.

Mentoring
        I have seen both formal and informal mentoring at my mentorship. There have been times when teachers that have been teaching for a while are in the teacher workroom and give advice to newer teachers about how they teach a specific topic or how they handle with a specific type of student. I have also seen this happen the other way around. There have been times when newer teacher give advice to more experienced teachers. Sometimes, the mentoring is more formal. There has been a time when a new teacher that is still learning has sit in on my mentor's class and observed how she handles classroom environment. There is always mentoring going on at the middle school.