Amanda Brueggeman: Student Centered Mentoring

Episode Notes:

-Student Centered Mentoring Book: Keeping Students at the Heart of New Teachers’ Learning

-4 Core Beliefs for Success: Empower others to grow, Learning is Process and so is Teaching, Relying on others, and Setting Goals as well as keep trying.

-Student Centered Mentoring - a collaborative approach for mentors and mentees that focuses heavily on the impact of students’ learning with layers of support.

-More focus on what students are doing as opposed to the more traditional watching of what the teacher is doing. It is less evaluative. When doing observations keep the focus on the students.

-Partnership is key, we can’t do our work alone.

-Utilize Directional supports- to help narrow down the support for the new teachers.

-Being a model of listening, another layer of support.

-Use the lens of the mentor for more tips.

-Natalie- “Question until you know, instead of faking it until you make it!”

-Tina - As a mentor she jumped in and did a coaching cycle in order to stretch her own learning. Do the mentor cycle and be vulnerable to show the learner side.

-Strength Based Feedback- thinking about how you implement it has to do with your relationship. Beware of how much clarifying you are doing. Can you celebrate? Collect good language and sentence stems to utilize in the future.

-In order to retain teachers we need to have conversations with each other around, how can we help all students learn? Do we still hold those same expectations for all students? We need teacher efficacy but also collective efficacy. These should work in tandem together. 

-With all of these things in place it helps build our belief that we can make that impact on our kids.

-To keep educators in the profession we can try out the directional supports outlined within the book. Providing many different options of support for our educators. Don’t assume, and ask the good questions.

-Keep questioning as mentors, and try to be specific with those questions of support. Try to uncover the beliefs and continually check in with your mentees. 

-”Empower others to make and impact”

-Ask questions.

 

Connect with Amanda:

Website: www.AmandaBrueggeman.com

Twitter: @ACBrueggeman

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