Welcome Mentor Certification Training

Year Two Session H

• Sign in & wear your nametag.• Greet each other• Grab a bite to eat• Sit anywhere you want

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Housekeeping Details• Video-taping of your

class (due February 22)

• Action research project ( due January 25th)

Know D P•Why & how video taping can be beneficial in analysis of both teaching and student learning.

•Deepen understanding of analysis of teaching and learning

•Deepen understanding of reflective practice

K Do PExamine the role of reflection and the Beginning Teacher Portfolio

•Rate yourself as a reflective practitioner.

•Practice reflecting

K D Procedure

•Direct Instruction

•Reflect

•Journaling

Trios & ShareGet into triads according to

the playing card you received

Share your Student Profiles

Rotate until all have shared

Relay Summary• The first person to share begins• He/she records a word or phrase

that shows the modifications that were made for the highlighted students.

• Hands off to the next person until all modifications have been listed.

• Last person to respond stands up

Ask a trio to get with another trio

Generate a list of modifications

AS you were discussing your student profiles, you probably heard about the special adaptations made by your group.

Now use the relay summary form to create a list of those modifications to share with the entire group

Give the small groups a chance to complete the relay

Then create a master list on chart paper –group representative will stand until all items on summary have been shared

Analysis of Teaching and Learning

• Describe how you used knowledge of learning to plan and revise the instruction of your profiled students

Likert ScaleMentors

As

Reflective Practitioners

• Review a process to see if the desired goals were met

• Make learning visible• Complete the learning cycle of an event• Put school issues in perspective

• Find a more considered response to an event

• Achieve meaning and understanding

• Add value to self and to performance• Move from novice to expert

Why is reflection important?

• We live life forward but understand it backwards.

• The complexity of the world is so great that no one person can figure it out.

School InitiativesBrainstorm

• National• State• Local

Record in your journal the initiatives that impact your life as an educator

Sphere of Influence/Sphere of Concern

• I have no control over…

• I have control over…

StressThere is no such thing!

It is our response to a stimuli.

We must choose our response.

ReflectionReflect on a mentor/teacher who helped you…

• Review a process to see if the desired goals were met

• Find a more considered response to an event

• Add value to your performance

• Move from novice to expert

Ms. I Walk the Line• Read the last two pages of

Ms. I Walk the Line’s portfolio

• Rate her self-reflection 1-4. (1 is low and 4 is high)

• Why did you choose that score?

JournalWrite about one strategy/idea to help your beginning teacher become more reflective?