Episode Notes:
-Served in a wealth of roles within education from teaching, coaching, to administration.
-Contract work for curriculum companie and Senior Consultant for Learning Forward
-Mentoring Program through Learning Forward- a learning cycle with three parts. 1. Diagnose 2. Coaching Support 3. Monitoring Progress and Reflect
-The mentors only goal is to help the mentee grow professionally. You have to communicate effectively through listening, paraphrasing, questioning, and giving quality feedback.
-Work life balance and time management are two big factors that can be barriers for new teachers, as well as big behaviors.
-We can support and retain teachers through the use of a specifically assigned mentor. Also having a good, collaborative team can be a huge difference in morale and make you not feel alone in this difficult job.
-Monthly mentor/mentee check in meetings are also powerful in supporting our newest educators.
-This job does not get easier, you just get better - because you have more tools and resources in your toolbox.
-Establish strong and trusting relationships. Develop partnership agreements to foster that strong relationship- sets the purpose of the relationship.
-We assign mentors as soon as is possible. We want to be proactive in building that relationship and that they are part of a team and a culture.
-Mentor check ins - agenda - and tailor to strategic points in the year to ensure we are checking in and providing support. Your success is our success!
-Observation and feedback are essential to growing as an educator. Utilize SMART goals between mentor and mentee. Make it timely and attainable, so the mentee can feel that success in a timely manner.
-Coaching is a way to scale your impact, a way to impact more students through educators. Every educator needs a coach.
-If you could fix one thing about this situation, what would it be? If you could wave a magic wand and it would fix the hardest parts of this situation, what would it be? In a perfect world, what would this look like?
Connect with Leslie:
-X: @ldhirsh
-Learning Forward Consulting Services
-Mentoring New Teachers: A Learning Cycle Approach go to LearningForward.org —> Bookstore
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