Mentoring AQ 2016
A Summary By Dion, Spencer, and Sarah
Mentoring For All
Handbook and presentation by Jim Strachan (Education Officer with Ontario Ministry of Education - Supports teacher development across Ontario)
- There are multiple models of mentorship and roles the mentor can take on (consultant, collaborator, coach)
- Build a mentoring web
- The power of listening by attending fully, pausing and rephrasing, using non-verbal encouragement and reflecting on feelings
- Goal setting
- Ask scaling questions
Leadership:
Moving from:
- directing and telling to asking and listening
- delegating and keeping people accountable to coaching, holding people able and modeling accountability
- information-starved to open and transparent
Challenges:
Fierce Conversation: used for continual improvement with good and poor performance thus making every conversation count
Courageous Conversation: used to address poor performance or to address an issue
Trust:
- The foundation of a relationship
- Necessary for effective conversations
- Emotionally supportive AND cognitively demanding
- Mindfulness
- Impostor syndrome
Mental Health
Be aware of the resources available in your board:
-School Level
-Board Level
-For Students
-For Staff
-For Your Family
"Everyone, as a community member, has 2 responsibilities regardless of their age; sharing your gift and equally willing to listen and learn," - Wendy Donaldson
Are you on board?
When a problem comes your way how do you react?
- Jump on board and be part of the solution
- Stand in the way and get hit with a confrontation
- Get dragged along and pulled into the negative emotions
Brené Brown "The Power of Vulnerability"
- What should scare me?
- Who's to blame?
- Never enough...
- Blame is discharging of discomfort and pain
- Does your emotion and reaction to a situation mobilize or immobilize you?
- "An ordinary life has become synonymous with irrelevant life," - Brené Brown
Sharing of Great Discoveries
Sharing of research papers that investigate a variety of topics and philosophies related to mentoring