Welcome  Please find your mentor/protégé – ask us for help with this if you haven’t met yet!  Choose a cue card on your table…think about how you might respond to that question!  We’ll start at 9:00 am

Learning Services

Now that you have had some time to get to know us….

Our goals:

Team Building Agenda Determining Your Needs– Time to Talk Understanding Mentorship BREAK Topics– IMC, Planning with TPACK Planning Time 9:00- 9:30 9: :45- 12: :30 1:00- 3:00 LUNCH

Team Building with Carmen

 School  Grade(s)  Subjects  Cue Card question Meet your table group! Introduce yourselves:

UNDERSTANDING MENTORSHIP Use the electronic binders provided to answer the questions about the mentorship program. Let’s Start with a Quiz Hee hee hee Hee hee hee

A wise man learns from the experiences of others. An ordinary man learns by his own experience. A fool learns by nobody’s experience. ~Unknown

What is mentoring?  An intentional pairing of individuals with the goal of providing the inexperienced person with an experienced partner to guide and nurture his or her development.

The Role of The Mentor Definition: A mentor is an experienced role model who supports the professional development of individuals new to the Board. Both the new teacher and the mentor:  learn more about themselves  improve their skills  gain professional recognition

 The goal of mentoring is not for the mentor to create clones of themselves, but rather to help their mentees develop into the best teachers they can be.

Mentorship Goals: Protégés  To help you develop or enhance:  Teaching competency  Self confidence  Self direction  Professionalism  A learning community

Stages of Concern

Effective Mentoring Practices  Relationship  Knowledge  Foster Independence

Life Cycle Trust Building Teaching of Risk Taking, Communication & Professional Skills Transfer of Professional Standards Dissolution Introduction

Mentorship Processes  Guideline – 5 days  Supper  Sub forms  Division meetings – touch base (4 days)  Logistics – work out with mentor/protege

Questions

Focused Conversation...  Mentor/Protégé partnering  Time to talk  Questions are a guideline only  Think about the details (follow up after this meeting)  Take the conversation where it needs to go

Start Up Conversations  What was the best thing that happened to you in the past few weeks? What are you most excited about this year?  What was a tough moment you experienced in the past few weeks? How did you handle it?  What were some of the structures/rules you established the first day/week of school?  Are there students in your class you are worried about?  How did you find planning for a substitute teacher today?  What units are you working on? How are you handling the load?  What clubs, sports groups, and extra curricular activities are you involved in at your school?

IMC

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. ~Unknown

Break – 15 minutes

Building a Plane in the Air?

Fred & George

The Big Picture Technology Assessment Pedagogy Curriculum 21 st Century Skills Inspiring Ed. School Act/TQS Setting the Direction QLE The Big Picture

Essential Question  What is student engagement?

Assumption & Misconception "This generation of student is expert in using new media to entertain themselves but knows very little about how to use it as a tool for learning." Michael Wesch

Table Discussion: Placemat  In reference to 21 st Century Classrooms: ~ What is an engaged learner? ~ What types of tasks engage learners? What is it about the tasks that are engaging? ~ What types of assessment practices engage learners? What is it about these practices that engages learners?

Student Engagement  Seinfeld as a History Teacher Seinfeld as a History Teacher

Looking for Learning in 21st Century Classrooms There are many lenses which to view learning in 21st Century Classrooms Technology is merely one.

Today's best schools are measured by their ability to provide students with: Differentiated Instruction Dynamic Learning Environments Unique opportunities to create, collaborate and communicate --at ALL grade levels, and in ALL subjects--

21 st Century Skills How Do We Get There?  What does it mean for a school to focus on 21st century skills?  Is it starting a classroom blog and making your students do a PowerPoint presentation... or is it something more?

Questions to ask yourself.... How is technology being used in my classes?  New way to do old things?  Doing something that otherwise wouldn't have been possible?  Making tasks efficient to help develop conceptual understanding?

Blooms Revised Source What do you notice in comparing the two? What does this mean for the curricular planning & teaching processes?

Blooms Goes Digital

Planning with Technology

TPACK

Instructional Planning

TPACK Game

So What?

Goals  What have you heard?  What do you know?  What questions do you have?

Questions?

Lunch