Sample Mentor Training Program Outline

Day 1

• Mentoring processes and relationships; reflections on mentor's own first year of teaching.
• Mentor roles and responsibilities; history of mentoring.
• Definition and types of coaching.
• Establishing rapport and developing trust.
• Environmental difficulties of teaching.

Day 2

• "Top 12" first year problems encountered by beginning teachers from research literature.
• Active listening.
• Building collegial relationships; communicating with administrators, peers, parents, and students; providing moral support
• Establishing effective routines and procedures; environmental classroom factors.

Day 3

• Helping new teachers stay on top of their workload.
• Long range, unit, and weekly planning models.
• Classroom management techniques and discipline models.

Day 4

Observation process, observation tools and coaching.

Two days of mentor/new teacher training includes:

Day 1

• Needs assessments for mentors and new teachers.
• Goals of the mentoring program; roles for mentors, role of new teacher.
• Trust building.
• Joint planning for classroom management and discipline.
• Joint planning for the first day of school.
• Discussion of parent communications.
• Introduction to long range, unit, and weekly planning.
• New teacher-only discussion of strengths/needs/concerns.

Day 2

• Feedback on mentor and new teacher needs assessment administered on Day 1.
• Joint long range planning revisited.
• Trust building.
• Joint nuts and bolts planning in new teachers' building.
• Active listening.
• An overview of assessment.
• Celebrating the joys of teaching and learning.

Mentor Training Program

North Kingstown, Rhode

DAY 1

8:00 a.m. -- Registration/Coffee

8:30 a.m. -- Welcome and Introductions

9 a.m. -- My First Year in Review

10 a.m. -- Break

10:15 a.m.

• Building a Foundation
• Mentor Relationship
• Effective Teaching
• Instructional Leadership

12 p.m. -- Lunch

12:45 p.m.

• Adult Learning
• Hunt's Model
• Case Studies

2:15 p.m. -- Questions and Answers/Evaluation

DAY 2

8 a.m. -- Registration/Coffee

8:15 a.m. -- Model Mentor Characteristics

9:15 a.m. -- Cognitive Coaching

10:15 a.m. -- Break

10:30 a.m. -- Pre and Post Conference Skills

11:30 a.m. -- Lunch

12:15 p.m. -- Setting Goals

1 p.m. 

• Letter to Myself
• Questions and Answers/Evaluation