The following points have received less attention (again from "A Learning Guide for Teacher Mentors" from the State of Victoria Departrment of Education and Early Childhood Development)
- post-modern teaching is different: teachers need much more emotional support because they're teaching the children of fractured, poor, or single-parent families
- is this the future of mentoring? no more mentoring pairs; not only focused on classroom work; integrated part of "broader improvement efforts." I just wonder...
- good answer to "What's the difference between mentoring, coaching, and counselling?"
- (on page 20-21 of the Guide)
- Mentoring: professional - the "critical friend"
- Coaching: short term, performance oriented
- Counselling: short term, "developmental, corrective objective."
- Feedback
- Warm feedback: builds on strengths
- Cool feedback: sees what's not in the work and flags it
- Hard feedback: promotes more global thinking
- Reflective practice
- So important! I've asked my DOS to do a workshop on it
- So many ways!
- journals, formal/informal conferences, observe each other
- Reflective questions
- What's working, not working?
- How was your lesson?
- What went as planned?
- Why do you think the lesson went so well?
- How can you use what you have learned in another situation?
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