; (ii) provide supports for a teacher candidate mentee during clinical practice or a teacher residency program, or a beginning teacher mentee during an induction program, including information on the resources and supports based at the school and the local educational agency serving the school; (iii) establish a role model relationship for a mentee; (iv) observe the mentee’s teaching methods in classroom settings and be observed modeling best practices; (v) provide mentoring to a mentee teaching in the same field, grade, or subject; and (vi) promote empirically-based practice of, and scientifically valid research on, where applicable— (I) teaching and learning; (II) assessment of student learning; (III) the development of teaching skills through the use of instructional and behavioral interventions