Teacher Mentoring to Enhance Instructional Competency

Veteran teachers within a school have a wealth of knowledge and experience in the classroom that can benefit novice teachers. Our project seeks to capitalize on this knowledge and experience by establishing mentor relationships between veteran teachers and novice teachers in their first three years of teaching.

Specific to our schools, theology faculty members are mostly Catholic priests with degrees in areas other than education. The input of teachers with more training in education could be beneficial for skills like:

• Classroom management

• Lesson planning and assessment

• The use of school and community resources