Training Summaries: Year One
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
Last Modified on 11/04/2010