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Pedagogical competence refers to the teacher's ability related to their theoretical mastery and its application in teaching performance. This ability can be obtained through educational process based on the level of competence. This research aims at comparing the effect of the mentoring model implementation toward pedagogical knowledge of prospective teachers. This study belongs to a quasiexperiment research with pretestposttest nonequivalent control group design. The population of this research was the prospective students of Biology Education Department in University of Muhammadiyah Bengkulu. The sample of this research was 60 students taken by using cluster sampling technique. The research instrument used a pedagogical knowledge test. The data were analyzed by using Mann-Whitney U-test. The results showed that the implementation of mentoring model has significant different effect in improving pedagogical knowledge compared to the conventional model. Thus, it can concluded that the implementation of mentoring model has a significant effect on the improvement of pedagogical knowledge. The mentoring model has proven to be effective in supporting the teachers’ professional development.