Welcome
Mentor Certification Training
Year Two Session H
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Sign in & wear your nametag.
Greet each other
Grab a bite to eat
Sit anywhere you want
Housekeeping Details
• Video-taping of your
class (due February 22)
• Action research
project ( due January 25th)
Know D P
•Why & how video taping can
be beneficial in analysis of both
teaching and student learning.
•Deepen understanding of
analysis of teaching and
learning
•Deepen understanding of
reflective practice
K Do P
Examine the role of reflection
and the Beginning Teacher
Portfolio
•Rate yourself as a reflective
practitioner.
•Practice reflecting
K D Procedure
•Direct Instruction
•Reflect
•Journaling
Trios & Share
Get into triads according to
the playing card you
received
Share your Student Profiles
Rotate until all have shared
Relay Summary
• The first person to share begins
• He/she records a word or phrase
that shows the modifications
that were made for the
highlighted students.
• Hands off to the next person
until all modifications have been
listed.
• Last person to respond stands up
Ask a trio to get with another trio
Generate a list of modifications
AS you were discussing your student profiles, you
probably heard about the special adaptations made by
your group.
Now use the relay summary form to create a list of
those modifications to share with the entire group
Give the small groups a chance to complete the relay
Then create a master list on chart paper –group
representative will stand until all items on summary
have been shared
Analysis of Teaching and
Learning
• Describe how you
used knowledge of
learning to plan and
revise the instruction
of your profiled
students
Likert Scale
Mentors
As
Reflective
Practitioners
• Review a process to see if the desired goals
were met
• Make learning visible
• Complete the learning cycle of an event
• Put school issues in perspective
• Find a more considered response to an event
• Achieve meaning and understanding
• Add value to self and to performance
• Move from novice to expert
Why is reflection important?
• We live life forward
but understand it
backwards.
• The complexity of the
world is so great that
no one person can
figure it out.
School Initiatives
Brainstorm
• National
• State
• Local
Record in your journal
the initiatives that
impact your life as an
educator
Sphere of Influence/
Sphere of Concern
• I have no control
over…
• I have control over…
There is no such thing!
It is our response to a stimuli.
We must choose our response.
Reflection
Reflect on a
mentor/teacher
who helped
you…
• Review a process to see if the desired
goals were met
• Find a more considered response to an
event
• Add value to your performance
• Move from novice to expert
Ms. I Walk the Line
• Read the last two pages of
Ms. I Walk the Line’s
portfolio
• Rate her self-reflection
1-4. (1 is low and 4 is
high)
• Why did you choose that
score?
Journal
Write about one
strategy/idea to
help your
beginning teacher
become more
reflective?