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Mentoring Guide for Helping New Teachers Implement Instruction
Mentoring Guide for Helping New Teachers Implement Instruction
The featured component of the Just ASK Framework for the Study of Teaching and Learning this month is implementing instruction. This sixteen-page guide will be posted for only one month so you should download it today!
As you work with novice teachers, this excerpt from The 21stCentury Mentor’s Handbook provides you with over 100 best practices to note and suggestions to make in multiple important areas including:
- Rigorous Instruction and Thinking Skills
- Constructivist Instruction
- Small Group Work and Cooperative Learning
- Literacy Instruction
- Instruction in Inclusive Classrooms
- Differentiation of Instruction
The guide also includes page references to Why Didn’t I Learn This in College? and Instruction for All Students.
Additionally, there are over 20 reflective questions to pose and questions stems to use as you promote deep big picture reflective thinking and encourage your protégée(s) to assess the effectiveness of their instructional decision making.
Best Practices to Note and Suggestions to Make stems include:
- I noticed that you…
- You might consider…
- It is likely to promote student achievement if you…
- Given that, I suggest you…
- The district performance criteria state that we are to…
Reflection and Question Stems include:
- How might you… ?
- How do you feel it went when you… ?
- What did you learn from the situation in which you… ?
- What does the data/research tell you about… ?
- How did this help students learn?
- How do you ensure… ?
- What is the process you use to… ?
- How do you think about… ?
- What are the variables you consider… ?
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Mentors.net was founded in 1995 as a professional development resource for school administrators leading new teacher induction programs. It soon evolved into a destination where both new and student teachers could reflect on their teaching experiences. Now, nearly thirty years later, Mentors.net has taken on a new direction—serving as a platform for beginning teachers, preservice educators, and
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