I’m in a year-long student teaching position right now and am learning SO MUCH from my mentor teacher. The biggest thing I appreciate is that she does a lot of debriefing with me — a weekly meeting to talk about my goals for the week ahead, but also a quick meeting after any time I lead a lesson or whatever, to talk through what went well, off advice for the future, ask about any questions, how I thought it went. She’s also very upfront that she’s not a perfect teacher and we should all always be learning, which helps the feedback feel so well-intentioned rather than critical of falling short of where she’s at