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Santa Cruz Mentor Training - Year One

Training for Those Who Work With Beginning Teachers

Background
Designed by the nationally renowned New Teacher Center at The University of California-Santa Cruz, this series of 7 days of training builds on 20 years of experience by the New Teacher Center in supporting beginning teachers.  The New Teacher Center serves as a national center for dissemination of information on new teacher support and provides consulting services for educational entities interested in developing or refining programs of support for beginning teachers.

Content
Santa Cruz Mentor Training –Year One takes place during the fall semester of 2008- 2009.  The sequenced curriculum focuses on building the knowledge, skills, and understandings critical for new teacher mentors and coaches in a range of program contexts. Although the training does not presume prior mentoring or coaching experience, the course content offers learning opportunities that are appropriate for a wide range of experience levels.  While not specifically designed for program leaders, they may wish to attend with a team of their mentors in order to adapt the strategies and approaches to their unique program context.

• Introduction to Instructional Mentoring (two days):  to support mentors in responding to eachnew teacher’s developmental and contextual needs and promote the ongoing examination of classroom practice (Download flyer)

• Setting Professional Goals (one day):  to deepen mentors’ understanding of the role of formative assessment through establishing focused goals, based on student standards and professional teaching standards (Download flyer)

• Coaching and Observation Strategies for Working with Beginning Teachers (two days): to assist mentors in collecting and sharing classroom observation data aligned with professional teaching standards and to help new teachers improve instructional practice (Download flyer)

• Analysis of  Student Work, Differentiation, and Lesson Planning (two days):  to provide mentors with tools and strategies for helping beginning teachers identify student needs, plan for differentiated instruction, and ensure equitable learning outcomes (Download flyer)

• Designing and Presenting Professional Development for Beginning Teachers (two days): to deepen mentors’ understanding of principles of adult learning in order to design and promote meaningful learning experiences for beginning teachers and others (Download flyer)
  
  

  Date	Training Topic	Training Site	Cost(includes materials fee)
  August 12-13, 2008	Introduction to Instructional Mentoring	To be announced	$390 for individuals, $340 for teams of 3 or more
  August 14, 2008	Setting Professional Goals	To be announced	$215 for individuals, $190 for teams of 3 or more
  September 16-17, 2008	Introduction to Instructional Mentoring	To be announced	$390 for individuals, $340 for teams of 3 or more
  September 18, 2008	Setting Professional Goals	To be announced	$215 for individuals, $190 for teams of 3 or more
  October 21-22, 2008	Coaching and Observation Strategies	To be announced	$390 for individuals, $340 for teams of 3 or more
  November 19-20, 2008	Analysis of Student Work	To be announced	$390 for individuals, $340 for teams of 3 or more
  March 9-10, 2009	Designing and Presenting    Professional Development for Beginning Teachers	To be announced	$390 for individuals, $340 for teams of 3 or more

  
  

ADVANCED REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED

Registration for Santa Cruz Mentor Training—Year One begins
 June 1, 2008.