Welcome to Mentor Certification Training Session A Day Two

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Welcome to Mentor Certification TrainingSession
A Day Two

• Sign In
• Grab a bite to eat
• Sit where you please
• Pick up one article to
  read with breakfast

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Know D P

• Coaching Procedures
• Coaching Guidelines
• Beginning Teacher expectations
• Expectations for day with Beginning Teacher
• TOP format
• Procedures for conferencing

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K Do P

• Read about the Coaching Process
• Modify a task checklist unique to your building
• Role-play coaching situations
• Look at your Beginning Teacher program

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K D Procedure

• Small Large Group Discussion
• Break Out Groups
• Checklist
• Group Presentations
• Paired Reading

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Jigsaw Activity

• Read your article silently
• Highlight important information for a mentor to
  know
• Complete the reading by 830
• Find three other people who read the same article
  and discuss what you found to be important

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Jigsaw Presentations

• Summarize and be ready to share with the whole
  group the most salient points of the article
• Your presentation must be interactive and brain
  compatible!

HOWEVER
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Presentations by Group

• Allow 45 minutes for presentations and discussions

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Break

• Take a break
• Stretch
• Be back in 10 minutes

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To Risk
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The Coaching Guide

• Paired Reading Activity
• Pair up with a partner
• Chose reader 1 and reader 2
• Reader 1 reads first 5 pages aloud
• Reader 2 listens responds
• Reader 2 reads the next 4 pages
• Reader 1 listens and responds
• Repeat with last four pages

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The Coaching Guide

• DISCUSS
• What interested you about the coaching guide?
• What seemed helpful?
• What clarifications do you need?

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Practice with the Coaching Guide

• Paraphrase practice
• Draw a sentence from the envelope and read it to
  your partner
• Your partner must paraphrase the one-liner that a
  beginning teacher might say

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Process

• Who had a good response to

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A Working Lunch

• Classroom Management Questionnaire
• Rate the activities as Effective or Non-effective
• Be prepared for a lively discussion
• Yummy food
• Enjoy!

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Brain Drainer

• How was your first year of teaching?
• Share an experience that you remember from your
  first year of teaching.

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Introduction to Beginning TeacherProgram
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Mentor Expectations

• Classroom visitation
• Pre post conference
• Complete the mentor checklist
• Talk to building principal regarding time for
  observation and conferencing

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Beginning Teacher Checklist

• Check out the checklist created by last years
  mentors
• What additions and/or deletions need to be made?

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Beginning Teacher Checklist

• Record your additions and/or deletions
• Turn the revised copies to Joey, Jane, or Shelly
• Finalized checklists will be e-mailed to your
  school address just in time for the workday
  tomorrow

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Beginning Teacher Checklist Timeline

• Preschool tasks
• First Week of School tasks
• First Month of School tasks

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Break

• Take a break
• Stretch
• Be back in 10 minutes

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Role-playing

• Divide into threes by disciplines or grade levels
• Play Rock, Paper, Scissors until a winner is
  determined

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Scenarios

• See pages 80-81 in Cognitive coaching notebook
• Use a made-up situation re
• Management
• Assessment
• Instruction

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Assessment of Coaching Guide

• How are you feeling about the Coaching Guide at
  this point?

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Homework

• Homework for August 31st
• Day with a Mentor survey
• Additional changes to Checklist

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Reflection

• Journal Assignment
• Today, I was surprised that
• Today, I learned that
• Today, I reviewed/revisited