Induction and Mentoring

Induction and Mentoring Program

Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you all will be able to spend time with family over the holidays. For the new teachers, the holidays can be a time of rejuvenation and relaxing that you need. Reimbursement checks for the first grant will be going out before Thanksgiving to the districts for reimbursement of plan periods/use of subs and for mentor stipends. This should be a nice Christmas "gift" to the mentors. Thank you mentors for your commitment and dedication to the new teachers. Did you all get your note pads at Institute or just after? If not, email me and I will see that you receive yours. We have just two sessions left in our mentor training this fall. It has gone fast but has been a great time to get to know the new mentors. They will recieve their certificate of completion of the training after Christmas.

Mentors, please remember to sign up with your teacher to attend the "Using Student Work to Guide Instruction" workshop. You have the choice of February 10 or March 24. Call Gertie at 939-5650 to register if you have not yet done so!

New Teacher Training Dates:

Please register by calling the Regional Office in Waterloo at 939-5650 or fax form to 618-939-5332 or email registration form to eshom@roe45.org. Registration is due to no later than Tuesday, November 1, 2008. Registration Form

The Effective Teacher: Using Student Work to Guide Instruction Register for only one of the dates! Content will be repeated both nights.

Items to bring with you:

A set of student work (about 15) reflecting the range of performance from low to high. A set of student work could be checklist of skills in PE classes, a writing assignment and rubric, a test given to a class, a project and rubric assigned to students to demonstrate application of learning, etc. Call Rosie if you have questions.

February 10, 2009 SWIC Red Bud Campus, Performing Arts Center 4:30 - 7:30 PM, light supper provided.

March 24, 2009 SWIC Red Bud Campus, Performing Arts Center 4:30 - 7:30 PM, light supper provided.

Mentor Job Aides and Resources

Following are resources for the induction and mentoring program. All are Word Documents and can be saved to your computer and revised as needed. Most are in the job aides packet that mentors received during training, but they are placed here for convenience.

Program Information

Program Fact Sheet.doc

The Adult Learner.doc

Working with adult learners.doc

Fall 2008 Mentor Training

2008-2009 New Teacher Professional Development

Job Aides (Forms for use in the mentoring process)

Analysis of Student Work Document.doc

Collaborative Assessment Log by standard.doc

Collaborative Log Simple.doc

Phases of Observation Schedule.doc

Planning Conference 3.doc