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Guiding the learning and professional growth
of educators
- Online course - No travel to campus required
- Next Sessions:
EDUC 744941M June 8 – July 31, 2009
EDUC 744-941F October 6 – November 28, 2009
- 3 semester hours graduate credit
What Our Students Are Saying
"The mentor course was very sequential in nature and had information at every activity level that was very relevant to what is actually going on in the educational setting in school districts. The course provided the tools and information to successfully deal with mentoring, no matter what level of education the students in the class were at. From my point of view as a district administrator it has better prepared me to deal with this topic from writing and implementing policies and procedures to helping new staff with topics to make them as successful as possible as educators."
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Superintendent
Riverdale, Wisconsin
"This course offers you the chance to reflect on your past experience and allows you the chance to better yourself both as an individual through mentoring, and as a professional. The instructor is great. I felt like she cared about us as individuals and about our learning experience. "
~ Middle School Language Arts/Reading Strategies
Manawa, Wisconsin
"This course really helps to
begin to understand the challenges for initial educators
today."
~ Elementary Teacher
Janesville, Wisconsin
"This course
offers strategies to make the best of your first year of teaching and beyond. I was able to
see through the eyes of others that were at different levels in education and to
understand their concerns."
~ High School Principal
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
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Description:
Explore current research and strategies to support, guide and foster personal and professional growth of new educators. This course will focus on how to provide a support system for initial educators including ongoing orientation; a professional learning community; support seminars; confidential formative assessment; and the Professional Development Plan team process. Develop an action plan for your building or school district.
Guidelines will be reviewed as a model for designing a mentoring plan including self-reflection, goal setting, inventories, activities, timelines, evidence of collaboration, and an assessment plan. Designed for classroom teachers, guidance counselors, media specialists, school administrators, and teachers supervising student teachers.
You may participate using your home or work computer.
Review a few comments from our past participants.
You will connect to learning modules and class discussion via the Internet to retrieve and submit assignments, interact in discussions with other participants and the instructor.
Additional online classes are listed in the online catalog
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Learning Outcomes
At completion of the course, students will:
- Articulate an understanding of the role, benefits, and impact of serving as a teacher mentor. (WI DPI 10; WI DPI-Admin 3)
- Research and analyze the needs of initial educators, educator standards, and benefits of a mentoring program for the initial educator and the school. (WI DPI 10; WI DPI-Admin 3)
- Research and analyze the characteristics and behaviors of effective mentors when providing support, assistance, and feedback during observing and conferencing.. (WI DPI 9, 10; WI DPI-Admin 3)
- Demonstrate an awareness of the potential problems that are likely to occur in a mentoring relationship and apply best practice strategies and effective responses to minimize the problems. (WI DPI 10; WI DPI-Admin 3)
- Initiate a mentor/mentee relationship and establish a foundation of trust, communication, collaboration, and reflective practice. (WI DPI 6, 9; WI DPI-Admin 3)
- Identify best practices for creating and maintaining a safe environment for the mentee to attain and sustain a mastery level of teaching in an active, positive learning environment that supports school, district, and state curricula. (WI DPI 10; WI DPI-Admin 1, 3)
- Utilize and adapt a wide range of online resources when planning mentoring activities including inventories, readings, and a mentor/teacher journal. (WI DPI 10 ; WI DPI-Admin 3)
- Differentiate appropriate and inappropriate use of specific communication skills such as paraphrasing, active listening, and clarifying. (WI DPI 6; WI DPI-Admin 3)
- Design a professional development plan with a mentee including self-reflection, goals/benchmarks, activities, timelines, evidence of collaboration, and data as evidence of success in an assessment plan. (WI DPI 9, 10; WI DPI-Admin 1, 3 )
Course objectives are aligned with the following:
Wisconsin Standards for Teacher Development and Licensure
(WI DPI): # 6, 9, 10.
Wisconsin Standards for Administrator Development and Licensure (WI DPI-Admin)
# 1, 3
Content Outline
Required Textbook
Purchase a copy of:
The Mentoring Year: A Step-by-Step Program for Professional Development by Susan Udelhofen and Kathy Larson (Corwin Press, Inc. 2003)
This book is available from online book stores and can be ordered from most local book dealers. Readings will be assigned from this textbook.
Prerequisites
What are the minimum technology requirements?
Complete the system checkup on this website, https://uwstout.courses.wisconsin.edu/
by clicking on the link that says: Check your system.
Review the list of compatible/recommended browsers and software programs for Learn@UWStout at the Online Help Desk.
If you have any questions about these preferences, please call one of the numbers listed below and indicate that you are a UW-Stout student needing help with Learn@UW-Stout. Help is available 7 days a week.
1-888-435-7589 select option 3
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1-608-264-4357 select option 3
Take a few minutes to review the Frequently Asked Questions, (FAQs).
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Instructor
Alfi Velasco-Hurst
REGISTRATION
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Tuition is payable by university billing, MasterCard, or Visa.
Payment plan option available for fall or spring semesters.
Refund policy
Enrollment is limited to twenty participants; register online .
Check out the list of additional online classes.
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Contact:
School of Education
Online Professional Development
University of Wisconsin - Stout
Menomonie, WI 54751
phone: (715) 642-0209 or 715-232-2253
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Orientation Activities
After you are enrolled, review the orientation activities, the
Student Expectations and Responsibilities and Academic Expectations and Dishonesty Policy.
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