BLC Mentoring Assignment - Literature Review, Mentoring Plan Implementation and Activities

Running head: BLC MENTORING ASSIGNMENT
BLC MENTORING ASSIGNMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

BLC MENTORING ASSIGNMENT
Part 1: LITERATURE REVIEW
A. Research Article Review #1
Article Name: Impact of a Teacher Mentorship Program on Mentors’ and Mentees’
Perceptions of Classroom Practices and the Mentoring Experience (Mathur, Gehrke & Kim,
2013)
Author: Sarup R. Mathur, PhD, Rebecca Gehrke, PhD and Seong Hee Kim, MA
Date: 2013
Source: Google Scholar
Key learnings: There are certain facts that I have learnt from this article. Firstly, the decision
making of the teacher impacts the practices in the classroom as well as on the students.
Secondly, classroom practices are what helps the students to get positively or negatively
affected in their lessons.
Application to Mentoring Plan: This will help to develop practices which will enable my
mentee to understand the lessons well and communicate with me better.
B. Research Article Review #2
Article Name: Effective Teacher Professional Development (Darling-Hammond, Hyler &
Gardner, 2017)
Author: Linda Darling-Hammond, Maria E. Hyler, and Madelyn Gardner, with assistance
from Danny Espinoza
Date: June 2017
Source: Google Scholar

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Key learnings: The key learnings for this article is that teacher need to acquire new skills
and development to help the students to prepare and overcome their challenges and issues.
With the change in teaching styles over the time, teachers also need to change their teaching
methods to match with their students. Another fact is that teachers need to provide active
support to the students based on their area of expertise to enable the students to learn better.
Application to Mentoring Plan: The above learning could help me in my mentoring plan
because I can enhance my skills and develop myself to learn new ways to help my mentee in
his problems and lessons.
C. Research Article Review #3
Article Name: The Components of Effective Professional Development Activities in terms
of Teachers’ Perspective (Bayar, 2014)
Author: Adem Bayar
Date: 04/04/2014
Source: Google Scholar
Key learnings: The key learnings from this article are as follows. Firstly, the development of
the teachers and mentors should align with the needs of the school and the student. Secondly,
the quality of the teachers or mentors should be high so as to give the best services to the
students.
Application to Mentoring Plan: This learning would enable me to align my mentoring
methods according to the needs of my mentee and the school and also to develop my
knowledge horizon.