Connecting for Success: Mentoring Teacher Education Students Using Appreciative Inquiry

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Connecting for Success Mentoring Teacher
Education Students Using Appreciative Inquiry

• Dr. Ann Musgrove. Ed.D.
• Dr. Glenn Musgrove, Ph.D.
• Ms. Laura Antczak, M.Ed.
• Ms. Jennie dAnjou, M.S.
• Ms. Kristyn Roth, M.S.

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Right People, Right Time

• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful
  committed citizens can change the world its
  the only thing that ever has
• Margaret Mead

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Game Plan

• Introductions
• Brief overview of Program
• History of Appreciative Inquiry
• The Power of Words
• Discovery Interview - interactive small group
  demonstration of Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
• Faculty Comments on AI
• Questions

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Title V

• Title V grants are awarded to Hispanic Serving
  Institutions to assist eligible colleges to
  expand their capacity to better serve their
  students.
• The goal of the Title V CO-OP program is to guide
  education majors from high school to BC through
  the baccalaureate programs at FAU and to place
  highly qualified teachers in Broward County
  schools.

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Co-Op Partnership Pathway

• Students - Broward County Public Schools
• Urban Teaching Academy Program (UTAP)
• BC
• FAU
• Teachers -Broward County Public Schools
• Builds upon existing partnerships between BC and
  FAU

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• Broward Public Schools
• Current Headcount
• 255,000
• 37.8 Black,
• 29.5 White,
• 26.1 Hispanic,
• 3.4 Asian,
• 3 Multi-racial
• .02 Native Americans

• Current headcount
• Central Campus 20,500
• All Campuses
• Education majors
• 32 Black
• 24 Hispanic
• 37 White

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AI New age O.D. philosophy

• AI proposes to engage those within an
  organization to renew, change, and focus
  performance in order to improve organizational
  effectiveness.
• Has been used in business, health care systems,
  social profit organizations, educational
  institutions, communities, governments and
  religious institutions including McDonalds, the
  U.S. Navy, and Save the Children.

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AI

• Does not focus on problem finding or fixing what
  is wrong.
• Rather
• Focus is on building around what does work and
  getting more of that.
• From problem finder to excellence facilitator.

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4 stages of the AI process

• Discover Identify the processes that work well
• Dream envision processes that would work well
• Design plan and prioritize change
• Destiny execution of the design

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The ethnographic process

• A particular way of asking questions and
  envisioning the future that fosters positive
  relationships and builds on the basic goodness in
  a person, a situation, or an organization.
• Involves social interviewing, group interviews
  (AI summits) focusing on large diverse groups to
  identify and build on the organizations best
  practices.

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The Power of Wordsthis is a video link not
available we use in our mentor training
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Discovery Interview(10 minute exercise)

• Pair up with someone you dont know
• While pairing up, think about how youd answer
  these 2 questions
• What excites you the most about your College?
• If you had 3 wishes for your College, what would
  they be?

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Discovery Interview

• One at a time, ask your partner the following two
  questions and listen deeply to their answers.
  Each of you will have approx. 4 minutes to talk.
• What excites you the most about your College?
• If you had 3 wishes for your College, what would
  they be?

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Discovery Interview

• How many of you found this exercise meaningful?
• Tell me what was meaningful.
• What did you hear from the other person that was
  meaningful?

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Mentor Comments

• I walked away with very specific ideas
  resources on how to mentor students.
• It opened my eyes to new perspectives about
  listening and mentoring.
• Information presented was very useful.

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Questions? Contacting us

• Dr. Ann Musgrove, Ed.D.
• amusgrov_at_broward.edu
• Dr. Glenn Musgrove, Ph.D.
• gmusgrov_at_broward.edu
• Ms. Laura Antczak, M.Ed.
• lantzcak_at_broward.edu

• Ms. Jennie dAnjou, M.S.
• jdanjou_at_broward.edu
• Ms. Kristyn Roth, M.S.
• kroth_at_broward.edu
• Ms. Susie Malter, M.B.A, M.Ed. Malter Assoc.
• sue_at_kitchman.net