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Finding TimeThe Mentor’s Dilemma
You will see that you and your job will evolve throughout the year!!!
Predisposition
Disequilibrium
Transition
Confidence
Efficacy
The
Developing
Mentor
Predisposition
• Seeks professional growth
• Desires to assist and nurture others
• Challenges self to improve
• Practices effective interpersonal skills
• Is open-minded and flexible.
Disequilibrium
• Applies skills of time management and organization
• Strengthens procedural knowledge• Shifts professional paradigm from teaching
students to teaching adults• Has doubts, fears, and unclear expectations
about mentoring roles• Has little self-confidence as a mentor• Experiences the “impostor phenomenon”
Transition
• Expands the understanding of mentoring roles• Expands knowledge base and new vocabulary• Develops individualized mentor strategies• Develops better questioning skills• Replaces personal agendas with the new teacher’s
agenda• Develops trusting relationship with colleagues• Reflects on and clarifies personal philosophy and
beliefs.
Confidence• Understands job expectations• Continues the development of mentoring strategies• Refines listening and questioning• Begins to dissociate from the protégé’s success• Finds a renewed sense of professionalism that
includes collaboration, collegiality, and articulation• Trusts in his or her own beliefs• Begins to advocate for beginning teachers.
Efficacy
• Develops a personal mentoring style• Continues to reflect on and adjust multiple
strategies• Recognizes personal strengths as a mentor• Makes emotional shift to detachment and
minimal response• Deepens the understanding of effective
teaching• Moves from intuitive to intentional practice.
Keep Your Eyes on the Real Picture
Previous Data taken from the 2008-2009 District at a Glance Data Sheet
Go into mentoring with your eyes open!!!
Best Case Scenarios
• You will be paired with initial educators who are working in situations that match your past work experience.
• Reality – you will be paired in unique ways.
Early education
Elementary
Middle School
Special Ed
Music to Math
English to
Bilingual to
Immersion
Or any combination imaginable
Best Case Scenarios
• You will start out with a complete listing of your 15 initial educators
• Reality – In January few of the current city wide mentors has a completed roster that is truly permanent
Best Case Scenarios
• You will have at each school– Resources– Embedded mentors– Supportive administrators– Stable initial educator schedules– Time in the initial educator schedules for them
to meet with you regularly• Reality – Every situation is different –
imagine your first school (multiplied by 15)
Survival Strategies
Budget Time for Research &
Making Connections
Be Flexible Support
Each
Other
Mentoring Strategies
• Collaborative Assessment Log• Permission to make time for
self• Role play several situations• Mentoring conversation
protocol• Prior Knowledge• Continuum• Professional Experience• Prioritize needs• Selective Scripting• Proximity maps• MPS Learning Targets
• Teaching Standards• Content Standards• Ideas for professional growth• Opportunities for reflection• Teacher release time• I—C—F Framework• Build relationship outside of
school • Interactive Journal• Meet prior to school• Give time management tips—
prioritize, share load• Tips to organize
Mentor Schedule
• 40 hours of work / week
• 8 am to 4 pm
• 1 hr lunch
• Expectation that you are working the new teacher seminars
• Expectation that you are using your own car to travel from school to school.
Mentor Schedule
1.5 hr / initial educator / week(x 15 (conservative figure))
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½ hr / week / mentor research (x15)(conservative figure)
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1hr / day / week for lunch(don’t get used to this)
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3/4 hr / day / week for travel (a very conservative figure (traffic, weather, parking)
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3 hr / week administrative mtgs.
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Mentor Academies (9 days/yr)(2 hr / wk)
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Phone Calls, Assisting Other Mentors, Receiving Support
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Initial Educator’s after hours coffee, schools open before 8am, mtgs before or after school
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Mentor Logs and Travel Logs and Responses to Returned Mentor Logs
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Dilemma is solved partially by voluntarily eliminating lunch
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Unless Something Else Happens ???
You always look for more time
What changes your schedule?
Mentor collaborations Intercessions in year round schools
Mentor staff meetings Banking Time Days
Snow days, initial educator illness / in-
service / difficult days
Mentor Academies 3 days in a week 3 weeks
a year for 9 days
Unscheduled New Teacher Inservices
Assisting other mentor’s initial educators
Final Exams at Schools School Wide Testing
Mentor
Reflect
PlanTeach
Initial Educator
…this job is different because you not only must think outside the box……
… you control the shape of the box…
Meeting Times reso
urces
Wisconsin Teacher Standards
CALs
PDPASW
Parents
Self-
refle
ctio
n
Where do I fit on a continuum?
Mentor Academies
Mentor
Forums
Phone calls, emails…
Lesson
Plans
Although every positionhas constraints…
…as you help to shape 15 initial educators in the most challenging year of their chosen careers.