Leaving a comment on a blog
November 5, 2009 by wojtera
This assignment is two-fold in purpose.
The first purpose is to learn how to leave a comment on a blog. On each blog post there is a place for a comment. It might say no comment, if no comment has been made yet;
or it may say comments.
Click on the part that indicates comments and follow the steps below to submit your comment.
Now for the second purpose… to submit your comment! But first, you need an assignment…
Can you recall your best experience as a student teacher? How about your worst experience as a student teacher?
Can you recall your best experience as a new teacher? How about your worst experience as a new teacher?
Your best and worst experiences may have possibly been connected somehow to your cooperating teacher or your mentor teacher as a beginning teacher. Mentoring teachers are there to support the new teacher/intern and to maximize the effectiveness of that new teacher/intern in the classroom.
What are the elements of an effective mentor teacher for student teachers? … for beginning teachers? Use the comment section and list 3 elements you believe make an effective mentor teacher for student teachers and 3 elements that you believe make an effective mentor teacher for beginning teachers.
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3 elements for effective mentoring to student teachers:
1. Setting up expectations (classroom rules, schedules, what they are going to be responsible for)
2. Feedback
3. Authenticity
3 elements for beginning teachers:
1. Communication/Procedural info
2. Availability (being willing to answer questions or assist)
3. Sharing ideas and suggestions
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3 elements for effectively mentoring student teachers:
1. Connect with the student teacher as an individual and remember what it was like stepping into the classroom for the first time.
2. Be a role model for the behaviors you expect them to have with your students.
3. Give them opportunities to try things using their own style of teaching.
3 elements for mentoring beginning teachers:
1. Be there with assistance, both quality and quantity.
2. Let them know that your relationship is a 2 way street, they may teach you a “new thing.”
3. Be more of a listener than. a talker
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3 elements for effective mentoring of a student teacher
1. Making time to reflect on the day (positive and negative)
2. Clear understanding of the responsibilities expected
3. Collaboration
3 elements for effective mentoring – new teacher
1. Collaboration
2. Clear understanding of operating procedures
3. Availability to discuss things
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1. Give the gift of time pre and post teaching to help with planning and with evaluating.
2. Be conscious of good modeling.
3. Be open minded about different strategies being tried that are outside your repertoire.
1. Make time for talking/sharing.
2. Don’t limit that time to school. Try bonding beyond the school walls.
3. Keep an open mind about different teaching styles.
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3 elements of effective mentoring that I believe work with both groups are
1. Enjoy doing what your doing.
I remember as a young teacher just starting out and full of enthusiasm the words of an older but not wiser teacher, “She’ll get over it.”, is the comment I heard her tell a colleague. I’m pleased to say I’m not over it. I still get excited about the lessons I prepare to teach and the students I teach.
2. Don’t take yourself too serious. I learned this lesson from a student when I student taught at the high school level. I taught and gave insturctions for a unit and I guess I was a little intense. One of the gifted students just a few years younger than me, told me too relax. He insured me that I knew what I was doing and that the lesson was good but now let the class interpret.
3. Be organized. Talk about multi-tasking!!! At least my days are not boring. Staying organized helps me to communicate better and also helps me to go with the flow and change things up.
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3 for Student Teachers
1. Clear expectations with clear explanations
2. Understanding of cluelessness and schedules
3. Chances for do-overs
3 for Beginning Teachers
1. Availability for questions
2. Anticipate and tell them about the “quirks” of the school
3. Conversation, conversation, conversation
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3 for Student Teachers
1. Provide clear expectations
2. Give positive feedback
3. Address concerns quickly, don’t let them build up
3 for Beginning Teachers
1. Be supportive and empathetic
2. Share the ins and outs about the “workings” of the school.
3. Make time to be a good listener
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Donita
3 for student teachers
Be positive
Be clear about expectations
Be welcoming and make them apart of the class
for teachers
*Sharing of ideas, materials, experiences
*Be available, The first year is soooo hard. They need all of the help they can get.
*teach them how to save and manage time.
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3 for student teachers
1. Provide clear expectations
2. Be a good personal and professional role model
3. Be a good listener
3 for new teachers
1. Be a friend
2. Share ideas and materials
3. Be authentic
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Mentoring Student Teachers
1. Set an example!
2. Be clear on the expectations and responsibilities.
3.Make them feel welcomed and that they are a part of the classroom too.
Mentoring Beginning Teachers.
1. Be available.
2. Be collaborative, you might learn something too!
3. Be kind, positive and patient.
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3 for student teacher
1. Being positive and working together
2. Lots of feedback
3. Having good line of communication
3 for new teachers
1. Share! Share! Share!
2. Be a good listener
3. Making them feel a part of the team
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3 tips for student teachers-
1. Be positive, set the example you want them to see.
2. Give lots of feedback daily, both positives and ways to improve.
3. Make them an interactive part of the classroom.
3 tips for Mentoring Beginning Teachers-
1. Define a clear picture of what is expected of a teacher.
2. Listen, listen, listen!!!
3. Always be available for questions or comments, be open.
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3 elements for mentoring a student teacher:
1. Be a positive role model.
2. Take time to show them things. Don’t just assume they know.
3. Make sure they know their responsibilites.
3 elements for mentoring a beginning teacher:
1. Collaboration
2. Share experiences (both positive and negative)
3. Listen and remember what it was like for you.
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3 elements for mentoring a student teacher:
1. Teach by example
2. Be open to new ideas and ways of doing things
3. Establish clear expectations at the beginning
3 elements for mentoring a beginning teacher:
1. Make the new teacher feel welcome and a valued part of the school
2. Make it a point to always be available for questions, no matter how trivial
3. Collaborate – share ideas and experiences regularly
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3 elements for mentoring a student teacher:
a. Be clear and thorough when explaining schedules and routines. You want them to try their own wings but you also want your classroom to continue to run smoothly.
b. Remember how much you learned during your first year of teaching, and don’t expect them to know everything.
c. Make time to chat every day.
3 elements for mentoring a first year teacher:
a. Be a friend.
b. Pull them into your team and make them feel like they belong.
c. Let them borrow your things, materials, ideas.
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3 elements for mentoring a student teacher
1. effectively communicate goals and expectations
2. keep a positive attitude
3. make them a member of the classroom community
3 elements for mentoring a beginning teacher
1. make time to talk and listen
2. make them feel welcome and a part of the school community
3. share materials, ideas, experiences
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3 things for Student Teachers-
1. Welcome them as a professional partner and have them get involved right away. Don’t let them sit back and just grade papers.
2. Make sure they know those little things, like chili/no chili when lining up for lunch
3. Encourage them to try their ideas, be there to listen and encourage when things go well or don’t go so well.
3 things for Beginning Teachers-
1. All of the above
2. Check in often (before/after school) to see how things are going and to let them know you are there when needed.
3. Have a sense of humor and don’t be overbearing.
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Student teacers:
1. Clearly explaining expectations and not taking for granted that they already know how to do things.
2. Letting them try things their own way with guidance
3. Be a good role model
Mentoring a beginning teacher:
1. Help them to find their niche in the school
2. Be available for providing info when needed
3. Check with them frequently to make sure things are going well. Don’t always wait for them to come to you.
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… elements of an effective mentor teacher for student teachers?
Clear expectations/goals
model
learning together/offer
for beginning teachers?
Colaborate (share materials/ideas)
Make time for questions
time management ideas/techniques
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What makes an effective mentor teacher to a student teacher?
1. A mentor teacher should understand the difficutlty of transition and adjustment from learning about teaching in regular college classes to an actual classroom experience where a student teacher is learning by teaching. Preservice teachers need an opportunity to get their feet wet. It’s important to understand that he/she will not always succeed but that every success and every failure is an opportunity to become a better teacher.
2. A mentor teacher should honestly provide feedback to a preservice teacher and should model and encourage reflection.
3. A mentor teacher should be in contact with the preservice teacher’s advisor. He/she should be aware of what the expectations for the student are and allow the student an opportunity to complete his or her teaching obligations. This may require flexibility on the part of the cooperating teacher but is important for the learning of the student.
What makes an effective mentor teacher to a new teacher?
1. Being available to the new teacher to discuss joys and concerns of that teacer’s classroom. My mentor teacher was willing not only to help me reflect on what was going on in my classroom, but also to collaborate with me. She helped me develop a format for lesson plans. We were even able to work together on projects that benefitted both her class and mine.
2.The first year in a new school is hard and I think a mentor teacher can ease some tensions by extending hospitality and friendliness to the new teacher.
3. Support!
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An effective mentor to a student teacher:
1. being able to put into words what you do without thinking — so that someone else can figure out how to do it.
2. letting them try things that are different — even if you think they will crash and burn
3. being able to help them pick up the pieces afterwards by being honest and compassionate.
A mentor to a new teacher:
1. checking in — the new teacher won’t have the time to think to find you
2. find time for relaxed conversations
3. help with ideas for managing the paperwork and all of the extra stuff teachers have to do outside of teaching . ..
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3 elements for an effective mentor/student teacher
1. Supportive relationship of ST’s ideas, opinions, work
2. Clear expectations
3. Honest and constructive feedback
3 elements for an effective mentor/beginning teacher
1. Cooperative/collaborative relationship
2. Passing on important info. on school/community culture, routine, administrative expecatations(forms, procedures)etc…
3. Time to meet informally and check in to see what BT needs
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Best experience as a Blocking Student.
Some of my best experiences came as a Blocking Student here in Radford City Schools! I worked with a wonderful teacher, Darlene Collins. She taught me:
1. Always be positive.
2. Greet your children at the door each morning with a smile on your face.
3. ALWAYS keep in mind to treat the children the way you would want your own children to be treated.
I have to say my blocking experience was so much more meaningful to me than my student teaching experience.
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3 elements for an effective mentor to a student teacher
1. Honesty-tell the student teacher when they have done a good job and the other way around (even if feelings may get hurt).
2. Time-make sure to set time aside to talk with the student teacher.
3. Clear Expectations of what you want to happen in the classroom. Help the student teacher set ubtainable goals!
3 elements for an effective mentor teacher to a new teacher
1. Be a friend- both inside and outside of school
2. Share- materials, ideas, stories, EVERYTHING!
3. Support and Encouragement- There were days that I didn’t think I could make it through my first year, and my mentor kept me going!
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