| Mentoring
Activities
OTRM will expand the state's capacity to address critical teacher attrition
through new induction & mentoring programs for beginning & student
teachers in high-need schools. About 110 teachers per year will be trained
to serve as mentors to these teachers. Mentors will be matched to each
OTRM teacher candidate. In most cases, teacher candidates will have
two mentors.
The five participating universities will use a range of mentoring activities,
such as:
- Provide best
practices for mentor teachers and school administrators in their
supervision of student teachers.
- Provide workshops
on Oregon school reforms: standards-based approaches and assessments.
- Provide workshops
on reading/literacy strategies for teachers and administrators.
- Provide school
leaders workshops related to enhanced role in instructional leadership.
- Work with beginning
teachers on developing the 10 competencies associated with the Continuing
Teaching License (CTL is a requirement of Teacher Standards and
Practices Commission for all teachers licensed since 1999).
- Develop partnerships
with districts or specific clusters so that beginning teachers would
have the support of a building mentor while also working with a
university supervisor on their CTL portfolio.
- Continuing
Teacher Licensure plans may be developed concurrently with existing
plans to reestablish contractual Professional Development Partnerships,
in which student teachers, cooperating teachers and administrators,
and university faculty work on the simultaneous renewal of schools
and teacher education with the goal of improving students learning
such that "no child is left behind."
- The mentorship
program may be co-developed/delivered by district and university
to help teachers make the transition from initially licensed teachers to CTLs.
Teacher
Mentoring & Induction Resource Links
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