Mentor Orientation
Networking...Collaborating...Strengthening
Mentor Orientation
• participate in beginning teacher orientation;
• meet weekly with the beginning teacher;
• maintain documentation of mentor/beginning teacher activities;
• attend regularly scheduled campus mentor support meetings and trainings;
• provide support to beginning teachers in collecting and analyzing student data, classroom management, curriculum planning, and other activities related to pedagogy and improved student achievement;
• conduct observations and assessments of the beginning teacher; and
• complete all requirements of the school district’s beginning teacher and induction and mentoring program.
Mentor Orientation
Friday, Aug 3, 2018, 12:30 PM
Hudson Independent School District, Angelina County, TX, United States
Mentors and their Partner Teachers
- Make every effort to make the new teacher feel welcomed and a part of the school family.
- Provide the new teacher with opportunities to work with an experienced and willing mentor immediately.
- Match the new teacher with a mentor who has been carefully selected based on a record of proven success, knowledge and skills, and who is the right fit for the new teacher.
- Provide opportunities for the new teacher to learn the ins and outs of the classroom from the start of the school year.
- Give the new teacher a myriad of opportunities to plan and collaborate with the mentor teacher and peers as well as learn “best practices” from job embedded professional development.
- Expose the new teacher to authentic teaching experiences and allow opportunities for rich reflection on a daily basis.
- Model for the new teacher how to institute a consistent and effective classroom management plan.
- Allow the new teacher the chance to handle all types of discipline problems in order to develop an arsenal of strategies.
- Support the new teacher as much as possible. Share valuable websites and resources.
- Give the new teacher the opportunity to attend professional development regularly in order to grow professionally.
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Hudson ISD Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment
Email: jeffreylj@hudsonisd.org
Website: www.hudsonisd.org
Location: 6735 Ted Trout Drive, Lufkin, TX, United States
Phone: 936-875-9220
Twitter: @ljeffreyCIA