172 | COSERE 3.5. Mentor leadership styles Alternative leadership style It takes place if the mentor: • facilitates future teacher’s decision-making about what and how to teach; • offers alternatives to what the prospective teacher did; • allows the future teacher to be responsible for decision-making. For example, a mentor selects a teaching moment and discusses it with the prospective teacher. Then the mentor offers other options, how one or the other point of the lesson plan should be taught. The prospective teacher has the option to either reject or accept one of the alternatives. Then there is a discussion about the criteria by which the future teacher was guided when choosing one or the other alternative. The goal of alternative analysis is to make the prospective teacher understand that there are several options for deciding what and how to teach. It is even more important to develop the ability to choose and justify the criteria by which one or another decision is made.
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