Welcome to Mentor Forum

1. Welcome to Mentor Forum April 15, 2014

2. Connector: Individually answer the following 3 prompts: What is your favorite tool? Why? What are some different ways you might use this tool? What is one tip you might share with a colleague to explain or encourage them to use this tool?

3. Stand-Up Conversations • Stand up and find someone to share your responses (2 minutes each) • At the chime find a new partner to share responses • Be prepared to share a new way to use one of the tools or a tip that was shared about a specific tool

4. Collaborative Norms: • Equity of Voice • Active Listening • Safe Environment to Share Different Perspectives • Confidentiality • Monitor the Use of Technology

5. Agenda: • Connector • Collaborative Norms • Mentor Tools • I & M School Level Plan • Classroom Management Strategies • Journey Map • Certificates/Stipends • Video • PDE3 Logs • Questions/Closing

6. Objectives: • Analyze the uses and some of the challenges for each tool • Brainstorm ways to use familiar tools in different ways • Brainstorm ways to move Induction and Mentoring forward on the Continuum • Share best classroom management strategies • reflect on the successes and challenges of being a mentor to beginning teachers

7. Tool Carousel Purpose: To consider why you may have a preference for a specific tool and discover other ways to use tools

8. Tool Carousel Stand by the poster of your assigned tool and fill out as many of the prompts as possible. 5 min At the chime, rotate to your right, read what has already been written, and add at least 2 comments. 3-5 min /round Continue to rotate through the posters until you have added comments to each tool and you are back at your original poster. Be ready to report out highlights. 3 min each chart

9. Self Reflection What is one new way you learned how to use a familiar tool? What tool will you commit to using more often? What tool would you like to still learn more about?

10. What tool would you like to still learn more about?

11. I & M Continuum Activity • Highlight possible next steps for you • Add your own ideas to the list

12. Classroom Management Strategies • Pick a recorder/Spokesperson • Each person writes their 3 best classroom strategy on paper. (to be collected) • Share to small group • Large group sharing

13. Journey Map • Purpose To reflect on the successes and challenges of being a mentor to beginning teachers.

14. Journey Map • Use the concept of journey map to reflect upon the school year. • Think of the year and its events, from the beginning of the year to present, as a journey through a landscape. • Use the kinds of physical features that might be found on actual map to symbolize different points along the journey. • Use this metaphor to develop a poster of the journey you have taken this year and will also look ahead to the future. Add features tailored to your own personal experiences.

15. Journey Map • Label each landscape feature specifically, including names of events, people, obstacles, etc. • Journey might include: Mountains: successes or high points Banners: special events or people Valleys: low points Forests: periods of uncertainty Largest trees: big questions this year Sun: those who cast light upon your work Clouds or boulders: shadows or obstacles to overcome Companions: those who supported you along the way Horizon: visions for next year

16. Other business • Certificates • Stipend: Form due on May 15, 2014 • Future Mentor Forum Discussions

17. Video – A look back at the year

18. Exit Pass