APSMER2017 PROCEEDINGS

Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research
(APSMER 2017) 19th to 21st July 2017, Melaka MALAYSIA
Monitoring student-teachers’ teaching performance and overseeing the
progress of his/her students are part of my job as a mentor. As I am no longer
staying in the classroom to observe, I monitor the teaching performance and
students’ progress by having the following set up:
1. Teaching Notes
• The student-teacher needs to record their weekly teaching notes
in each of their student’s record folder.
• They also write down their concerns, challenges and questions
in the folder.
• Folders are checked weekly so that I can respond to their
questions immediately (see Figure 5).
Figure 5: Example teaching Notes
2. Piano Learning Planner
• This has long and short term planning, and an assessment of the
outcome of the previous term needs to be completed by studentteachers
on their students (see Figure 6).
• This planner will keep the student-teacher on track for what
he/she needs to achieve with each student.
3. Circle of Involvement
• The student-teacher needs to fill in the Circle of Involvement
chart by the end of every term to re-evaluate if they have
completed all of the studio requirements as teachers to make
their teaching more efficient (see Figure 7).
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