Teacher Mentoring

Purpose

 * To collaborate and find best practices on how to mentor and support teachers in the K-12 and higher education institutes of learning worldwide for online and offline learning.
 * To encourage and promote full and blended e-learning initiatives
 * To improve instruction and learning
 * To reform the public school systems around the world
 * To make learning fun and meaningful for the teachers and students
 * To encourage lifelong learners
 * To inspire young minds to think, observe, record, analyse and report at an early stage in life.
 * To develop the Guide/supervisor concept in original work.
 * To motivate teachers to work in newer and emerging areas.
 * To find solutions to problems that threaten good teaching-learning
 * To encourage teachers to take up action research and disemminate findings about the same

Definition

 * 1) At present, mentoring seems to have many different meanings depending on the person using it. While some see it as a form of leadership, others identify it as the art of communicating knowledge, the ease of advising or the ability to reaching those who are looking for anyone who considers superior and wants to learn from.
 * 2) Someone who considers him or herself an expert in an area and offers to share the expertise with another.

Role
The teacher mentor is expected


 * To provide a sort of cognitive apprenticeshipto teacher mentees
 * To nurture the inborn capacities of teacher mentees through scaffolding of learning experiences.
 * To asssit the teacher-mentee to identify areas/skills in himself/herself that need to be enhanced
 * To help the teacher-mentee to develop competencies required for successful interaction

For this the following roles are envisaged


 * 1) Facilitator
 * 2) Counsellor
 * 3) Resource generator
 * 4) Networker/collaborator
 * 5) Agent propogating change/ animator
 * 6) Reflective practitioner
 * 7) Curriculum Developer

Projects

 * Integrating Technology into the English as a Foreign Language Class
 * Integrating Technology into the EFL Class on Ning
 * Online Mentoring for Scientific Writing

Related Workshops
Teacher Collaboration

Resources

 * Watch the video by Dame Yasmin Bevan, DBE Denbigh High School on the Importance of Mentoring and on the magic of learning.

Suggestions

 * See also (and enhance): Become a Great Teacher
 * See also: Assistant teacher program on Wikiversity.

Feedback
The Teacher Mentor list needs a box for skills or specialization - thank you, can you start the list? --Nellie Deutsch 23:32, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

We can consider the skill of making OERs and make mentoring pairs interested in learning and improving this skill.--Gurmit 13:17, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

The Teacher Mentee list needs a box for area they want to learn more about. thank you, can you start the list? --Nellie Deutsch 23:32, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Live Online Workshops
Please add the dates you would like to present a workshop on mentoring teachers.

Contact
Please feel feel free to [mailto:nelliemuller@email.phoenix.edu contact me] if you are interested in joining me in helping others or to receive free mentoring. --Nellie Deutsch 12:53, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Teacher Mentees
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List of Teacher Mentors
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Become a Teacher Mentor


 * Country of Residence: New Zeland
 * Name: Eddie McKay
 * Gender: Male
 * Country: New Zealand
 * Employer: IT's Eazi Limited
 * Area of Expertise: Integration of Web 2.0 into the classroom
 * E-Mail: eddie@itseazi.com

Become a Teacher Mentor


 * Country of Residence: Sweden
 * Name: Jonas Backelin
 * Gender: Male
 * Country: Bulgaria
 * Employer: eduToolkit
 * Area of Expertise: Networked Learning, Social Media and Open Education
 * E-Mail: swedinbalchik@gmail.com