Developingmentoringskills [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Welcome to Developing Mentoring Skills 2012. Pareja/ Couple by Xul Solar* Description Mentoring is a 6 year-old community of practice of teacher educators worldwide. We have been offering workshops consistently on different issues related to Mentoring and this year we want to delve into a more personal aspect of it: developing one’s own mentoring skills. We will share, show, and discuss the skills in webinars with our expert members. Would you like to join us? Objectives In the course of the 5 weeks, participants will work collaboratively to: use various synchronous and asynchronous web tools to communicate with colleagues worldwide,interact through e-mail, text chat, voice chat, and others,reflect on and define their mentoring skills through exchange with peers ,discuss possibilities of applying the skills in their communities of practice.produce a group poster where they share their reflection on the interaction during our EVO.
Our moderators for the 5-week session will be mentors with experience in different contexts. Target audience. eFace Today. Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better. MET Project :: Welcome. Supporting Beginning Teachers:The Challenges of Supporting New Teachers. A Conversation with Linda Darling-Hammond But now most states have implemented some sort of professional development or peer assistance for new teachers. About three-fourths of new teachers report that they have participated in an induction program and have had a mentor teacher assigned to them.1 A few states even have fully funded mentoring programs in which the mentors are expert teachers who have release time to be in the classroom coaching on a regular basis. It's really important for beginners to have systematic, intense mentoring in the first year.
Having weekly support and in-classroom coaching in the first year for fine-tuning skills, for planning lessons, and for problem solving about things that come up in the classroom ensures that someone experienced is there during the critical moments of the beginning teacher's first year. That is the ideal way to make sure beginning teachers don't just survive but also become competent and effective—and stay in the profession. Endnotes.