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Example:
Activity for Mentors & Principals
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to Identify
Their Respective Roles
- ACTIVITY -
Planning - Will the Principal Do Any of the Mentor Tasks?
The District has provided a general set of checklists entitled
"The Tasks of Mentor Teachers"
which was developed from the experience of the staff on the Mentor
Program Committee and by evaluating similar checklists from experienced
mentors in other districts. These general checklists are meant as
a starting point to help mentors decide what may be appropriate
in their specific settings based on grade level, content
areas, the protege's experience, agreements with principals, and
the mentor's strengths.
Principals also fulfill some mentoring functions as a part of their
job as the building administrator. Given that reality, there needs
to be some means of coordinating "who does what" concerning
mentoring tasks. The goal of this activity is to
ensure that mentors and principals have time provided to discuss
the support to be provided and to be clear about their respective
responsibilities for the tasks involved in supporting new teachers.
This will be done by determining if any of the items on these checklists
are activities which:
- The principal might prefer to lead
with the mentor & protege
- The principal might prefer to lead
with the protege alone
- The principal & mentor might conduct
together.
No set number of items is expected to be removed from the mentor's
list and assigned to the principal. This is likely since building
administrators were represented on the Mentor Program Committee
that originally developed these check lists. In fact, it's OK if
a principal prefers that mentors do all of the items.
(Note: this activity assumes that principals are at the mentoring
training for this time period.)
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