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How is mentoring a beginning teacher different to mentoring a more experienced colleague?

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From a series of shorts directed by Davis Guggenheim (the director behind TEACH and Waiting for Superman) featuring The New Teacher Center's partnership program with Hillsborough County Public Schools (Tampa, FL), Mentoring New Teachers identifies the extremely high need for mentors for new teachers.

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Developing your own practice through the mentoring relationship

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Rachel Lofthouse provides some general advice to new mentors and shares some ideas on what to do in a first mentoring session with your mentee.

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What would you recommend to do in a first mentoring session with your mentee?

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What advice would you give to someone who is starting work as a mentor in School?

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Rachel Lofthouse provides some general advice to new mentors and shares some ideas on what to do in a first mentoring session with your mentee

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Mentoring - a conversation with Professor Sharon Feiman-Nemser

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Deborah Wansbrough of the Education Council talks with Professor Sharon Feiman-Nemser (Brandeis University, Massachusetts). They explore Professor Feiman-Nemser's research and expertise on educative mentoring and the ways in which mentors and teachers can work productively together.

This video was originally produced by the New Zealand Teachers Council.

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Hi everybody! My name is Nikos. I teach math at a High School in Thessaloniki. THis school year I mooved to another high school

I hope this MOOC will provide us all with new inspiration for innovative teaching and learning.

I'm keen on technology, which I have long been trying to implement in my teaching practice.

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what role can a mentor play in supporting new teachers find their place in a school?

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In the video below Rachel outlines some practical considerations to help your mentee deal with working with parents and other school stakeholders, understanding school hierarchies and how to work best with school leaders, and developing a positive relationship with teacher colleagues.

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what do you understand as being a collaborative conversation?

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Listen to Rachel's perspective on this and think about how collaborative your own mentoring relationship and conversations are.

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How can a mentor develop a climate of trust in their conversations with their mentee

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Listen to some first ideas of Rachel Lofthouse on why trust is so important and how to develop a climate of trust with your mentee.

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Involving Students in Lesson Observation

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together with an explanation of the observation process

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Model of differentiated impact of observation and feedback for student teachers

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Observation & Feedback: Six Steps to Effective Feedback

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Julie Jackson leverages six steps of effective feedback to show Carly Bradley how to raise the rigor of her questioning. Watch how Julie gets Carly to do the thinking and to practice on the spot.

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Using video recordings as a tool for shared review of lessons is a powerful mechanism to enhance our mentoring practice.

As Rachel writes in a blog post, the use of video supports

“a feedback loop in practice development and the opportunity for teachers to become more metacognitive in practice […] Video-recording provides teachers with access to their own practice in a way previously not possible, and this has the power to re-frame a teacher’s view of students, of learning and of themselves. If used to its potential it will provide insights, stimulate debate and support reviews of current practice.”

A great thing about recent technical developments has made the process of video recording lessons a lot easier. Mobile devices allow us to easily record ourselves and video sharing platforms make the process of sharing video recordings in preparation of a mentoring session very simple.

Nevertheless, it is important to think about when, how and to what purpose video is used. And also what limitations there are to recording a lesson. As Rachel outlines in the video below, video will never capture everything going on in a lesson and it’s important to be aware of the limits of what we can capture with a recording. Take a look at Rachel’s perspective on the use of video and how to use it effectively in the video below.

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What are the advantages of using video is a mentoring relationship & how to use video effectively?

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Rachel Lofthouse outlines that video will never capture everything going on in a lesson and it's important to be aware of the limits of what we can capture with a recording. Listen to Rachel's perspective on the use of video and how to use it effectively in the video below.

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What are the advantages and challenges of online mentoring?

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Tools to support online mentoring and the use of video

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Tools to support online mentoring and the use of video

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IRIS Connect (not free)

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Find out what areas of professional learning teachers across the country are using IRIS Connect for.

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Tools to support online mentoring and the use of video

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Tools to support online mentoring and the use of video

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Teachem is a nice free alternative to the annotation possibilities offered by the IRIS Connect platform as it allows you to easily annotate Youtube videos. It can also be nicely used in online mentoring for an asynchronous feedback discussion of a lesson observation.

In a mentoring context you can nicely use it to upload a lesson recording to Youtube (using the private setting so that it is not public) and then use Teachem to add notes and questions which are linked directly to specific sections of a video. For example, the mentee could upload their recording and add questions to the video via Teachem. The mentor can then add further annotations to the recording, answering the mentees questions as well as adding further observations. This provides an excellent record of the lesson from which the mentee can learn and to structure your discussions

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How to create Flashcards for teachem classes

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How to create Flashcards for teachem classes