Mentoring New Teachers Through Collaborative Coaching
Presenters
Kathy Dunne (Primary)
Description
Kathy Dunne, Director of Professional Development with Learning Innovations at WestEd and co-author of Mentoring New Teachers Through Collaborative Coaching: Linking Teacher and Student Learning, will facilitate an interactive webinar that will clarify roles and responsibilities of mentors as collaborative coaches, learn about the impact of coaching on new teacher learning, and examine how the needs of new teachers impact mentors as collaborative coaches. The webinar will also feature a live collaborative coaching conversation. Finally, participants will learn about several tools to assess mentor programs and coaching performance. Following the session, participants will be able to download several free tools and resources.
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I have been through several training days on mentoring. It was nice to get a new perspective and to have some things reinforced in this webinar.
—Webinar Participant
Webinar Resources
- Bibliography from the Online Event -Mentoring New Teachers Through Collaborative Coaching
- Chatlog for the online event,"Mentoring New Teachers Through Collaborative Coaching".
- Coaching Performance Rubric
- Criteria for Designing and Implementing a Mentoring Program
- Event Lesson Plan Example 1:“Beading Input/Output Tables” -- Grade 3
- Example Questions for Planning Conversations
- Lesson Plan 2. (Beading Project Example)
- MP3 Audio recording of online event, "Mentoring New Teachers Through Collaborative Coaching."
- Poll Results for the event,"Mentoring New Teachers Through Collaborative Coaching."
- Powerpoint for Event: "Mentoring New Teachers Through Collaborative Coaching"
- Preparing Mentors as Collaborative Coaches – Chapter 4
Other SchoolsMovingUp Resources that May be of Interest
From WestEd.org
Mentoring New Teachers Through Collaborative Coaching: Linking Teacher and Student Learning
"This is the 'soup to nuts' book that every district implementing a mentor program needs, whether starting from scratch or improving on an existing model." — Elaine Pinckney, Former Deputy Commissioner, Vermont Department of Education
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