Coaching and Mentoring Supervision for Enhancing Learning Management Competency for Mathematics Internship Students

Abstract

The objectives of this research are as follows: (a) to study the approaches of coaching and mentoring supervision in enhancing learning management competency; and (b) to assess the learning management competency of mathematics internship students. This research was conducted with a multi-case study research, including six participants who were mathematics internship students practicing in the school practicum in the first semester of the 2020 academic year  in three schools in Surat Thani province. The data was collected from the learning management competency assessment form including interviews, class observations, lesson plans, and field notes. The data analysis implemented descriptive analysis and statistics consisting of arithmetic mean, percentage, and standard deviation. The research results found that coaching and mentoring supervision approaches to enhance learning management competency  for mathematics internship students can be summarized into four steps, as follows: Step 1: preparation before teaching (Design); Step 2: the implementation of teaching and learning activities (Practice); Step 3, reflection after teaching (Feedback), and Step 4, improvement and development of teaching (Revise) and all six mathematics internship students had good rating scores in the assessment of the competency of learning management for both ratings. The average learning management competency assessment recorded the second time was higher than the first time for all participants.