Mentor2Mentor
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Description
This six week syllabus is for those interested in mentoring new or struggling ESOL teachers. Basic mentoring skills will be explored and online resources will be identified. Through discussion, case studies, and role play we will share our ideas and hone our skills. Guest experts will guide discussion as we identify our own mentoring strengths and possibilities. When it comes to mentoring, one size does NOT fit all! By the end of the session, we will identify how we can continue as a mentoring community as we return to existing individual mentoring relationships.
Objectives
Review and/or learn ways of mentoring
Practice mentoring skills
Establish an online mentoring community for teachers of ESOL
Target audience
Any ESOL teachers or administrators interested in mentoring new or struggling ESOL teachers
Interest Section/Other TESOL Sponsors
Teachers for Social Responsibility Forum, Teacher Educator IS, NNEST IS
Weekly content
Week 1 Introduction
Personal and professional introductions. Opening discussion on mentoring for ESOL teachers through response to a reading on active listening.
Week 2 Examine ways of mentoring with guest expert Gabriel Diaz
We will explore mentoring models and approaches through readings offered by our own co-moderators. At the end of the week, we will participate in an Alado presentation with guest expert Gabriel Diaz, listening to his experience and offering our own.
Week 3 Examine our practice through case studies
Volunteers will tell stories from their own mentoring experience. We will select cases which we can explore in order to collect our own characterizations of different “Ways of Mentoring.” Online discussion through "Tapped In."
Week 4 Practice our skills on each other through role play
Through an online discussion on Elluminate, we will practice various mentoring skills through role plays.
Week 5 Ask our questions with guest expert Angi Malderez
Guest expert Angi Malderez will present key issues in Mentoring through Alado, and then field our questions.
Week 6 Wrap up and plan for our own mentoring
Moderators
Valerie Jakar
I am a sociolinguist and teacher educator at the David Yellin Academic College of Education in Jerusalem, Israel. I was the academic adviser of the programs of in-service education for English teachers in the Jerusalem area.
Laura Stoutenburg
I am chair at the Language Institute at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. I also teach and do curriculum development for EAP and Workplace English programs in Ontario, Canada.
Shefali Ray
I have been working with English as a second language for a long time. This includes training of in-service teachers and teacher development. I have been lucky to have the opportunity to work with teachers at all levels at school and from different types of schools. I have been touring India and have conducted sessions and workshops for teachers in different states. This has been my greatest learning experience.
In addition, I have been training and mentoring pre-service teachers at the pre-primary, elementary and secondary level cross-culturally and across lingusitic societies.
My current assignment is to work with 'to be pre-primary teachers', elementary teachers and teachers in special education to the visually impaired. The last one also was an eye-opener when in order to help my students, I took some classes with the actual students. It is a totally different world out there when English is not your language and you need to perceive things and learn vocabulary and concepts using your auditory and other senses.
Marina Gonzales
I am Director of S at the Instituto de Lenguas Modernas in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I also teach ELT Management and Materials Design through distance mode for CAECE University in Argentina, too.
Communication tools to be used
Yahoo Group: http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mentor2Mentor/
Tapped In: http://tappedin.org
Alado: http://www.alado.com
LearningTimes/Elluminate: http://tinyurl.com/y3eh
Join this session
To join this group:
- Go to: http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/Mentor2Mentor/
- Click on the blue button: (This is just an image). The real button is on the Yahoo Group. If you don´t have a Yahoo ID, you will be prompted to create one (it is free).
- Follow the instructions
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