Candidates create professional partnerships to create learning opportunities for themselves and their students.

The candidate establishes mentor and accountability relationships with peers for instructional improvement.

This exhibit demonstrates my proficiency at establishing mentor and accountability relationships with my peers for instructional improvement. By serving as an accountability partner to fellow teachers, specifically regarding explicit presentation of benchmarks to students, I am entering into a mentor relationship. I also am involved in the curriculum mapping process, which necessitates a mentoring relationship with fellow teachers as we streamline the school's curriculum. I am mentored by other teachers in my content area through their suggestions and advice regarding the implementation of the curriculum. As Darling-Hammond states, “Teachers who have had good mentors are more likely to stay in teaching and become competent teachers” (as cited in Gardner, 2006).

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