Finding Time The Mentor’s Dilemma

You will see that you and your job will evolve throughout the year!!!

Predisposition Disequilibrium Transition Confidence Efficacy The Developing Mentor

Predisposition Seeks professional growth Desires to assist and nurture others Challenges self to improve Practices effective interpersonal skills Is open-minded and flexible.

Disequilibrium Applies skills of time management and organization Strengthens procedural knowledge Shifts professional paradigm from teaching students to teaching adults Has doubts, fears, and unclear expectations about mentoring roles Has little self-confidence as a mentor Experiences the “impostor phenomenon”

Transition Expands the understanding of mentoring roles Expands knowledge base and new vocabulary Develops individualized mentor strategies Develops better questioning skills Replaces personal agendas with the new teacher’s agenda Develops trusting relationship with colleagues Reflects on and clarifies personal philosophy and beliefs.

Confidence Understands job expectations Continues the development of mentoring strategies Refines listening and questioning Begins to dissociate from the protégé’s success Finds a renewed sense of professionalism that includes collaboration, collegiality, and articulation Trusts in his or her own beliefs Begins to advocate for beginning teachers.

Efficacy Develops a personal mentoring style Continues to reflect on and adjust multiple strategies Recognizes personal strengths as a mentor Makes emotional shift to detachment and minimal response Deepens the understanding of effective teaching Moves from intuitive to intentional practice.

Keep Your Eyes on the Real Picture

Previous Data taken from the District at a Glance Data Sheet

Go into mentoring with your eyes open!!!

Best Case Scenarios You will be paired with initial educators who are working in situations that match your past work experience. Reality – you will be paired in unique ways. Early education Elementary Middle School Special Ed Music to Math English to Bilingual to Immersion Or any combination imaginable

Best Case Scenarios You will start out with a complete listing of your 15 initial educators Reality – In January few of the current city wide mentors has a completed roster that is truly permanent

Best Case Scenarios You will have at each school –Resources –Embedded mentors –Supportive administrators –Stable initial educator schedules –Time in the initial educator schedules for them to meet with you regularly Reality – Every situation is different – imagine your first school (multiplied by 15)

Survival Strategies Budget Time for Research & Making Connections Be Flexible Support Each Other

Mentoring Strategies Collaborative Assessment Log Permission to make time for self Role play several situations Mentoring conversation protocol Prior Knowledge Continuum Professional Experience Prioritize needs Selective Scripting Proximity maps MPS Learning Targets Teaching Standards Content Standards Ideas for professional growth Opportunities for reflection Teacher release time I—C—F Framework Build relationship outside of school Interactive Journal Meet prior to school Give time management tips— prioritize, share load Tips to organize

Mentor Schedule 40 hours of work / week 8 am to 4 pm 1 hr lunch Expectation that you are working the new teacher seminars Expectation that you are using your own car to travel from school to school.

Mentor Schedule

1.5 hr / initial educator / week (x 15 (conservative figure) ) XXXXXX XXX XXXXXX

½ hr / week / mentor research (x15) (conservative figure) XXXXXX XXX

1hr / day / week for lunch (don’t get used to this) XXXXXX XXX

3/4 hr / day / week for travel (a very conservative figure (traffic, weather, parking) XXXXXX XXX XXXX XXXXXX

3 hr / week administrative mtgs. XXXXXXXX XXXX ????????? ???????

Mentor Academies (9 days/yr) (2 hr / wk) XXXXXXXX XXXX ?????????

Phone Calls, Assisting Other Mentors, Receiving Support XXXXXXXX XXXX ?????????

Initial Educator’s after hours coffee, schools open before 8am, mtgs before or after school XXXXXXXX XXXX ?????????

Mentor Logs and Travel Logs and Responses to Returned Mentor Logs XXXXXXXX XXXX ????????? ???

Dilemma is solved partially by voluntarily eliminating lunch XXXXXXXX ????????? XXXXXXXX ????????? XXXXXXXX ????????? XXXXXXXX XXXX?????????XXXXXXXX ?????????XXXXXXXX UnlessSomethingElseHappens??? You always look for more time

What changes your schedule? Mentor collaborationsIntercessions in year round schools Mentor staff meetingsBanking Time Days Snow days, initial educator illness / in- service / difficult days Mentor Academies 3 days in a week 3 weeks a year for 9 days Unscheduled New Teacher Inservices Assisting other mentor’s initial educators Final Exams at SchoolsSchool Wide Testing

Mentor Reflect Plan Teach Initial Educator

…this job is different because you not only must think outside the box…… … you control the shape of the box… Meeting Times resources Wisconsin Teacher Standards CALs PDP ASW Parents Self-reflection Where do I fit on a continuum? Mentor Academies Mentor Forums Phone calls, s… Lesson Plans Although every position has constraints…

…as you help to shape 15 initial educators in the most challenging year of their chosen careers.