ABSTRACT
Teachers who undertake the responsibility of mentoring a student teacher during a practice teaching session should have some understanding of how student teachers feel in their role as developing teachers in a school environment. One way to know this is to ask student teachers to reflect on, and articulate, their experience during the practicum, and then to listen carefully to the voices of these students in their reflective journals. The discourse of endurance that is revealed in the quotation above is something of which supervising/mentoring teachers should be aware as they take upon themselves the task of judge as well as mentor.
