Journey to Excellence

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Welcome

• Journey to Excellence

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Challenges

• New teachers are expected to perform the same
  tasks as veteran teachers
• Mentoring is critical to welcome and retain new
  teachers
• Support is provided for two years

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Learning-Focused Mentoring

• Induction is an investment in retention,
  integration and continual growth.
• Cohesive and collaborative instructional teams
• Ongoing learning about and from teaching

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Safe Environment

• Mentors are trained to guide you from being a
  novice to an expert teacher
• Providing you with their full attention during
  meeting times and high expectations
• Colleagues will feel safe to engage in
  confidential and supportive work together

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Reciprocal learning

• Opportunities to think out loud, share
  information, and solve problems to create new and
  innovative approaches to working with students
• Benefits for experienced teachers and gains in
  confidence for novices

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Student Learning

• Mentors will challenge you to examine where you
  are and where you need to be through a variety of
  learning projects
• Data will be used to create meaningful and
  thoughtful classroom activity

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Cohesiveness

• Work will align with district and building
  initiatives
• Model a variety of protocols to use in any
  subject
• Link assessment, instruction, and curriculum

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Benefits to Mentoring

• Improve Instructional Performance
• Transfer the district policy, procedures and
  educational philosophy
• Frame the professional learning journey
• Promote norms for collaboration