Mentoring2012

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Developing Our Mentoring Skills

Pareja/ Couple by Xul Solar

Description

Mentoring is a 6 year-old community of practice of teacher educators worldwide. We have been offering workshops consistently on different issues related to Mentoring and this year we want to delve into a more personal aspect of it: developing one’s own mentoring skills. We will share, show and discuss the skills in webinars with our expert members. Would you like to join us?

Objectives

In the course of the 5 weeks, participants will work collaboratively to:

use various synchronous and asynchronous web tools to communicate with colleagues worldwide,
interact through e-mail, text chat, voice chat, among others,
reflect on and define their mentoring skills through exchange with peers ,
discuss possibilities of implementing the skills in their communities of practice.
produce a group poster where they share their reflection on the interaction during our EVO.

Weekly chats will be held to discuss content and pre-defined topics, build rapport and create a sense of community.

Our moderators for the 5 week- session will be mentors with experience in different contexts.

The content for reflection as well as the production from the discussions will be made available through a wiki created during the five weeks, which will be kept online for future reference.

At the end of the session participants will be invited to join the Mentoring Tesol community of practice.

To check the complete syllabus, follow this link: http://developingmentoringskills.pbworks.com/w/page/48121585/Syllabus

Target audience

Teacher educators, Language Program Administrators, ESL/EFL teachers interested in creating educational working atmospheres

Requirement

Having an e-mail account, familiarity with browsers, Internet access and navigation. Having a headset is advisable.

Interest Section

We are grateful to CALL-IS, Social Responsibility IS and NNEST IS who kindly sponsor us.

Readings

There will be weekly recommended readings for reflection and discussion.

Communication Tools to be Used

Yahoo group: http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/Developing_Mentoring_Skills/
Website: http://developingmentoringskills.pbworks.com
Skype communications system:

Our Skype IDs: Valerie: vs_jakar, Marina: minushkigonzalez, Laura: laurast70

Tapped In: http://tappedin.org/tappedin/
Elluminate vClass (The Webheads vOffice in LearningTimes.org) http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=273662

Join this session

The action starts on Jan 9, 2012.

To join this group:

From January 2 to 8:

1. Go to: http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/Developing_Mentoring_Skills/

2. Request to join the Group

3. Wait for approval

Note:

When you register for the group, you will have to be approved by the moderator in order to reduce the possibility of "unwanted" members (such as spammers).

Moderators

Marina Gonzalez

Teacher and Teacher educator in Argentina. EFL Primary School Teacher. reasearcher and MPhil student.

Valerie Jakar

Sociolinguist and teacher educator at the David Yellin Academic College of Education in Jerusalem, Israel. Academic adviser of the programs of in-service education for English teachers in the Jerusalem area.