OSPI Mentor Roundtable Meeting Professional Development for Those Who Support the Growth of Teachers Reflecting on Your Mentoring Experience Helping Novice Teachers End the Year Successfully

Entry Task On your own: Please take some time to respond to the four prompts on the handout titled Some Thoughts About Your Mentoring Experience. One thing I wish I knew in the fall about mentoring that I know now… One way that I have grown through mentoring a novice teacher… If I could, I would… What I would tell someone who was considering mentoring a novice teacher…. As a group: Choose your response from ONE box and share round robin with the people at your table. Please listen for common themes.

Whole Group Sharing What common themes were identified?

What is our purpose at roundtables? Mentor Roundtables provide a regularly scheduled opportunity for mentors, coaches, and administrators in a geographic area to meet with colleagues to share ideas and challenges, practice skills, and to address role alike issues and concerns. *Your time to slow down the pace, reflect, and attend to your own learning.

How will we learn at the Roundtable? Through Acquiring new* information/knowledge Practicing/developing skills Networking Reflecting on our practice *New, knew, or re-new

Our objectives for this evening:  Reflect on your growth as a mentor and set a goal(s) for increasing your mentoring skill set.  Examine the typical needs of novice teachers at this time of year. Determine possible approaches for supporting your teacher as the school year draws to a close.  Practice learning focused conversations skills.

Mentoring: A sophisticated skill set Please read through the Mentor Skill Primary Traits Rubric on pages of Mentoring Matters and reflect on your skill set development by marking each skill as ‘unaware ’, ‘with conscious competency ’, or ‘flexibly and fluently.’

Identify a Goal On your own: For the skills that you marked ‘unaware’, identify one that you would like to set as an area of development for you as you think about your future mentoring work. With a partner: Share the skill that you chose. Discuss how YOUR development in this skill area might impact a new teacher’s growth and development.

The Novice Teacher’s Development

Supporting a novice teacher’s development at the end of the year… On your own: Please read pp in Mentoring Matters and examine the Calendar of Options on p. 17. Highlight ideas or phrases that stand out for you as you think about supporting your novice teacher. Write down some possible options for how you might best support, challenge, and facilitate vision for your teacher in the last weeks of school.

The conversation skills: Fully attend to the other person by offering eye contact and non-verbal cues that signal that they have your full attention. Pause before paraphrasing or asking questions. Paraphrase what the person has said to convey that you understood or to check for clarification. If needed, ask an open-ended question to invite thinking. No advice!

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Paraphrase,then question. r s t u v w x y z

Coaching Coach Ask, As you think about supporting a novice teacher at the end of the school year, what is seeming important to you? Colleague Enjoy the time to think and reflect

Feedback Speaker: Please tell the coach one thing that he/she did that helped support your thinking.

Coaching Coach Ask, As you think about supporting a novice teacher at the end of the school year, what is seeming important to you? Colleague Enjoy the time to think and reflect

Feedback Speaker: Please tell the coach one thing that he/she did that helped support your thinking.

The 6 Word Memoir Legend has it that Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

Your 6 Word Memoir A creative way to reflect on your year of mentoring or first year of teaching…

Thank You! What we do to new teachers, we do to their students. High quality induction is an equity issue for students. We, as professionals, have a collective responsibility to layer support around our novice teachers.

Clock hours June Classes Next Meeting: June 2, 2016 What would you like to focus on during our June meeting? Open it up to mentees?

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Exit slip… On the back of your Thoughts About Your Mentoring Experience handout: 1 thing that would motivate me to mentor another novice teacher 1 thing that would discourage me from mentoring another novice teacher