Training Sessions:    Defining Mentors and School Climate

 

Part 1                                                 Part 2

Part 1: So you want to be a mentor?   Welcome:   *Create a folder on the ltolbert drive * Smart Start Reflections: Who Were Your Mentors? * WORKSHEETS DON'T GROW DENDRITES (Save to your folder.) *Brainstorming and Discussion   *  TEAM Identification *  Name Tent Instructions *  Name Tent Template *  Participant Information Database *  Partner Sheet *Getting To Know You Instructions (LiveText) *  Partner Calling Card Instructions * Principles of Mentoring * Roles and Responsibilities of TSS * Characteristics of a TSS   *Projects To Complete For This Course    Most Frequent Perceived Problems      * Relationships with Parents      * Dealing with Individual Differences      * Assessing Student Work      * Dealing with Problems in the Classroom      * Classroom Discipline      * Organization of Class Work      * Insufficient Supplies      * Classroom Design      * Classroom Design Web Site     What is a mentor? * Poster: What is a mentor? (Type, print, assemble, post OR use chart paper.) * GaDOE: Georgia Mentor Teacher Program * Defining a Mentor Teacher: GaDOE   WORKSHEETS DON'T GROW DENDRITES Artwork and Drawing   * Reflection: What Qualities of a great Mentor Do You Possess? * Say Something      Projects: Reflection: Reflect and email your instructor.         *  Mentoring Reflections Guide         *  Reflection Template   * Missed Session Assignments: 1. Create a Name Tent for class use. 2. Complete and print responses to Smart Starts. 3. Create a poster to define a mentor. (see above) 4.. Read all articles above, type and print a 100 word summary for each.      Submit all work in a manila folder to instructors.

Part 2: Why do beginning teachers need mentors?   * Welcome to Session 2   *  Smart Start: The Most Common Problems Perceived by New Teachers * WORKSHEETS DON'T GROW DENDRITES   Find your What Do I Do Next? partner and go through this slide presentation together...   Roles and Responsibilities   Read Articles:                 *   The Induction of New Teachers, Promising Practices                  *Schools and the Beginning Teacher by Sheila Moran (Handbook) Project: School Climate:                     * What Defines the School Climate?               More Information:         * Teaching's Next Generation, Harvard Graduate School of Education         * ASCD Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching         * Task Force on School Climate         * What Defines the School Climate?         * School Climate Web   *  A New Teacher's World: Not Your Grandmother's Classroom *  * Say Something   * Profiling the Good Mentor * The Principles of Mentoring   * Resource for Supporting New Teachers   * Why is there a need for a Mentoring Program? Vemont * Supporting Beginning Teachers, NWRL * What does the Research Say?   * 100 Things a Mentor Might Do * Search:     Google         AltaVista        Yahoo! * Mettle of a Mentor by Vicki Denmark     * Reflections: Mentoring     Projects *Coupon Book * Handbook to use with a New Teacher * Requested Assistance   (MSWord List) Read for selection during the next class session * Database for project assignments for Requested Assistance *Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites Sign-Up     * Missed Session Assignments:   1. Use the links above to: a) research School Climate, b) read "Define School Climate", c) design and print an Inspiration Concept Web,  d) design and print a PowerPoint in handout view. 2. Complete and print Profiling the Good Mentor. (see link above) 3. Complete and print The Principles of Mentoring. (see above) 4. Complete and print Three Common Mentor Problems. (see above) 5. Open and save 100 Things a Mentor Might Do. (see above) Highlight 10 items YOU will do and write a brief description (50 words) of each.      Submit all work in a manila folder to instructors.

 

 

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