Finding Time The Mentor’s Dilemma. You will see that you and your job will evolve throughout the year!!!

Finding TimeThe 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 2008-2009 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))

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

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

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







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3 hr / week administrative mtgs.

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Mentor Logs and Travel Logs and Responses to Returned Mentor Logs









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Dilemma is solved partially by voluntarily eliminating lunch

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Unless Something Else Happens ???

You always look for more time

What changes your schedule?

Mentor collaborations Intercessions in year round schools

Mentor staff meetings Banking 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 Schools School Wide Testing

Mentor

Reflect

PlanTeach

Initial Educator

…this job is different because you not only must think outside the box……

… you control the shape of the box…

Meeting Times reso

urces

Wisconsin Teacher Standards

CALs

PDPASW

Parents

Self-

refle

ctio

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Where do I fit on a continuum?

Mentor Academies

Mentor

Forums

Phone calls, emails…

Lesson

Plans

Although every positionhas constraints…

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

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Finding Time The Mentor’s Dilemma. You will see that you and your job will evolve throughout the year!!!