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The second placement at Churchill Primary saw me in a straight grade 2 class with
two very different mentors. My male mentor, Mr. D, was the main teacher, and
acted as maths coordinator, while my female mentor, Mrs. D, was the acting viceprincipal provided memory serves. Mrs. D was only in the classroom 2 days of the
week, but her teaching and mentoring provided a great contrast to his.
Mr. D was perfectly willing to let me adopt whatever approach I chose to teaching
the students, and provided me with some great resources about the schools
teaching approach and for lessons. Meanwhile Mrs. D was extremely strict, and
planned out lessons for me, dismissing my ideas by commenting that I did not know
the students. While I understand her reluctance to hand her class over to another,
and she did have a point about my lack of knowledge, in hindsight her comment
landed a blow on my self-esteem as a teacher, and I would have appreciated it had
she used her knowledge of the class to give me guidance instead of taking over.