9.14.2010 Mentor Forum

Mahalo to Radford Highschool for their hospitality and hosting school year 2010-2011's First Mentor Forum.  Fabulous venue for fun and learning.

Our day started with the Moanalua Community School for Adults sharing information about PLATO Learning's Praxis Prep Courses.  For just $50 dollars per course a semester teachers can get online praxis prep.  Please contact the Moanalua Community School for Adults for more information.  You can also check out this link from PLATO:

plato educator solutions

Next, our PRO awarded our special mentors, honoring our new Mentors and our most Veteran Mentor JS with the highly limited and sough after Kahikuala Tshirt!!!  He also shared some updates regarding personnel and highly qualified.  A lot of information was shared regarding some of the trials and tribulations our schools and new teachers are encountering.  It helped us all gain a perspective about what some of our teachers are experiencing outside of classroom teaching.

New Mentors Recevied a Limited-Edtion Kahikukala Crunch Bar

JS, our Most-Veteran Mentor Received a  Kahikukala Tshirt.

JM presented next sharing the various Mentor Tools we'll be utilizing:  Mentor Log, Contact Form, and the Collaborative Log.

Next, SB shared more info about NHQ and shared the NHQ form to help document a teacher's progress with their PDPs.

Sample Monitoring Log for School Designees

Mentors then took a break to participate in the Kahikukala 1st Annual Project Runway Teacher Challenge!  Mentors worked in teams to create a new outfit for Ms Viola Swamp.  After outfits were completed there was a walk off to crown the Champ.  While all participants were AMAZING strutting their stuff, KK won the challenge!!!!

Next it was time to work on Relationships.  JM shared books based on How Full is Your Bucket by T. Rath.  Mentors thought about bucket filling and dipping relating to themselves and their new teachers and brainstormed ways to keep their New Teachers buckets filled.

How Full is Your Bucket

Some of our Mentors' Amazing Work!

Since the Mentors now had a chance to bond it was time to get to the Rigor.  AP and SB then presented about the Hawaii Teacher Standards and the Standards Self-Assessment Protocol that we'd all be trying this year.  Mentors, please remember to give it a go with your New Teachers after Relationship Building and bring an anonymous copy of the action plan to our next meeting in December.

We ended the day with FP presenting on Mentor Conversations, focusing on:  Pausing, Paraphrasing and Probing.  Mentors practiced these three concepts with one another so that they could in turn coach their new teachers.

All in all it was a great day!!!!!