ABSTRACT
A mentor’s main duty in this third role relates to modelling what it means to be a professional teacher. This does not mean a mentor needs to be perfect, but rather that mentors need to reveal and make visible how they deal with any challenges in their own teaching and other aspects of their professionalism so that the mentee does in fact notice. A mentee will then have a model not only of how you do things (reflect, work on your own learning and so on) but also that their mentor does regularly engage in these aspects of professionalism. In this chapter, the various aspects of what it means to be a professional are outlined, and the challenges of this model role are discussed for each aspect. As always, there are lists of practical strategies others have tried to overcome these challenges. Despite the fact that a mentor will rarely need or want to model (any aspect of) how-to-teach, the chapter ends with a list of some situations when modelling some teaching Know How might be appropriate.
