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Welcome Mentors!

Welcome Mentors!. Student Teaching Orientation December 4, 2018. Welcome!. Let’s introduce ourselves! Name What do you want to get out of the next hour? What do you need to know? What are you most excited about?. Mentor Teachers. What does it mean to be a mentor?

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Welcome Mentors!

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  1. Welcome Mentors! Student Teaching Orientation December 4, 2018

  2. Welcome! Let’s introduce ourselves! • Name • What do you want to get out of the next hour? • What do you need to know? • What are you most excited about?

  3. Mentor Teachers What does it mean to be a mentor? What anxieties or challenges do you foresee?

  4. Student Teaching Experience • Student teaching is min of 12 weeks basically they are “working” as a teacher under your mentorship. • Seminar will be weekly • Elementary students may need to leave early to arrive to campus by 4:00 • Secondary starts at 4:30 • Teacher candidates evaluated using the Charlotte Danielson Framework (Talk about later) • Dispositions assessment

  5. Rough Overview

  6. Mid-Term and Final Evaluation • Regular formative feedback is encouraged (all the time) • Danielson Framework • Scoring criteria • Expectations at Mid-Term and Expectations at Final • Preponderance of evidence and generating notes • Consensus Meeting for Mid-Term (sometime between week 6 and 8; for final sometime between week 13-15 • Questions

  7. Dispositions • What are dispositions? • Issues and concerns; communicate with supervisor • Formal Disposition Evaluation week 6-8 • Scoring criteria • Expectations • Entering data into Tk20 • Questions

  8. Assessment Overview

  9. Tk20 Tk20 is our tool that allows you to submit your Professional Dispositions online. It is evaluations made simple.

  10. Evaluations Made Easy • Be on the lookout for an email with your Tk20 username and password. • Log in at https://tk20.umflint.edu • To access your students’ Professional Dispositions evaluation, Click the ‘Field Experience’ tab on the right. • We will always email you instructions to complete it. • If you need support, contact us!

  11. Stages of Concern for Teacher Candidates • Read the 4 stages of concern on your handout • How do these resonate with you? Do they seem accurate based on your experience with student teachers or as a student teacher?

  12. Discussion In your table group: • Review and discuss information presented and your individual questions • What support do you need from UM-Flint? • Identify any lingering thoughts/questions • Please add any new questions to your list that have come up from your group After a few minutes we will ask each group to share bits of their discussion.

  13. Mentor Meetings • Would you like to stay in touch as a group this semester? If so, how? • Virtually via social media or video chat • Meetings on campus • Meetings at your school with just the mentors in your district?

  14. Questions? What lingering questions do you have? Please feel free to contact us at any time! • Thomn Bell, Director for the Center for Educator Preparation (thomn@umflint.edu) • Annie Whitlock, Elementary Program Coordinator (anwhitl@umflint.edu) • Suzanne Knight, Secondary Program Co-Coordinator (suknight@umflint.edu) • Laura McLeman, Secondary Program Co-Coordinator and SEC 499 Instructor (lauramcl@umflint.edu) Thank you for your time! Have a fabulous semester!

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