Training Summaries: Year One

• Day One
• Day Two
• Day Three
• Day Four
• Day Five

Day One

Goals

• Gain a basic understanding of the role of mentor
• Explore conditions affecting beginning teachers’ performance
• Develop collaborative and coaching skills to use with beginning teachers
• Acquire strategies for providing assistance to beginning teachers
• Grow as a reflective professional
• Learn strategies that can be used with students

Agenda

• Welcome and introductions
• Great Mentors
• Expectations of OMN
• Strategies for Mentoring
• The Continuum of Learning-Focused Conversations
• Introduction to Coaching Strategies

Day Two

Goals

• Increase our skills in coaching
• Reflect on adult learning
• Become familiar with the rubric
• Compare evidence and opinion in data collection
• Connect evidence (data) with the rubric

Agenda

• Coaching skills
• Adult learners
• Beginning Teacher Performance Standards (a.k.a. "Rubric")
• Evidence versus opinion
• Rubric + evidence = learning

Day Three (attended by principals and mentors)

Goals

• Review learning with school teams
• Review the philosophy of OEC-M
• Become familiar with the Four-Step Coaching Process
• Gain strategies for building productive mentoring relationships

Agenda

• Coaching Carousel
• OEC-M Mentoring Model
• The Four-Step Coaching Process
• The Challenges of Mentoring
• Getting Started with the Beginning Teacher Activity

Day Four (attended by the mentor and beginning teacher in the fall)

Goals

• Debrief and reflect on Module A.
• Learn strategies for reflecting on learning-focused conversations.
• Prepare for Module B.

Agenda

• Listening Activity, Parts1 and 2
• Key concepts of the OEC-M mentoring process
• Debrief of Module A
• Preparation for Module B

Day Five (attended by the mentor and beginning teacher in the spring)

Goals

• Reflect on growth in teaching and mentoring
• Grow mentoring relationships
• Developing Individualized Plans for Professional Development (IPDP)

Agenda

• Mentoring Relationships
• Rubric Reflections for Modules B and C
• Planning for Module D
• End-of-Year Celebration
• Next Steps