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It’s not what you know, but who you know
Daniel S. Meyers, M.S., M.A.T. Chemistry Teacher
Portage Central High School, Portage, MI
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Network
Take 30 seconds and introduce yourself to someone new near you. Exchange contact info (email, Twitter, etc.).
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Outline
• Mentorship • Ask ?s • Professional Learning Network (via Twitter) • School/District Tech Folks • Think outside of the box • Freebie
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Mentorship
• How many of you have or had a mentor teacher? • In your discipline? • What does it mean to have a mentor teacher?
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Qualities of a Good Mentor
1. Committed to the role of mentoring • Help beginning teachers find success, gratification
2. Accepting of the beginning teacher • Recognizes that beginning teacher is in a developmental stage of
professional career 3. Skilled at providing instructional support
• Mentors coach beginning teachers to improve performance regardless of skill level
4. Effective in different interpersonal contexts • Communication
5. A model of a continuous learner • Exhibit openness to learn from colleagues, including beginning
teachers; pursue professional growth 6. Communicates hope and optimism
• Share own struggles and frustrations and how they overcame them Rowley, J.B. (1999). Educational Leadership, 56(8), 20-22.
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Mentorship
• Reciprocal: Each participant has something to share, contribute to and receive benefits from.
The classroom-based teacher who agrees to mentor a pre-service teacher
needs to nurture, advise, guide, encourage and facilitate authentic
learning experiences for developmental growth.
Dr. Angelina Ambrosetti Central Queensland University Australia
Ambrosetti, A. (2014). Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 39(6). Amrbosetti, A. (2012). Joint AARE APERA International Conference, Sydney 2012.
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Mentorship
• Student teaching – 2 mentors • 1st year of teaching – no “real” mentor • 2nd year to current – 1 primary mentor + several
in-school resources
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Ask Questions
• The Q/A session is at the end of the symposium • Asking questions: simplest and most effective
way of learning
Sloane, P. (2014). http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/ask-questions.html
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Asking Questions at PCHS
• My mentor teacher, Jon (chemistry) • Karen (chemistry) • James (chemistry, biology) • Kelli (chemistry, biology, health, earth science)
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Asking Questions Outside of PCHS
• Chemistry teachers at PNHS • Content-based questions – Twitter!
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Twitter as a PLN
• Professional Learning Network or PLN described more in depth by Erica
• Twitter is a means to communicate • Share information or receive information
• One of the top 10 most visited websites in 2013
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Twitter as a PLN
• Significant number of teachers I can communicate with regularly to share information and seek help (ask questions) – some of which are in this room – @dragan, @eposthuma, @thomsonscience
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Twitter as a PLN
Educator Twitter Handles by Subject – also available on Mr. Meyers’ Google Site
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Tech folks
• There’s new technology in your classroom. How do you use it?
• Your district switches gradebook software. How do you use it?
• Your district adopts Google for everything. How do you make and sustain a Google Site?
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Tech folks
• When in doubt, turn to your building/district tech coaches (or, Technology Integration Specialists)!
@Paul_Murray6 @jeswinstanley
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Think Outside of the Box
• Have an idea for a lesson plan? Run with it! Don’t feel hindered.
• Share your idea with colleagues in and out of building.
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Think Outside of the Box
Example 1 – Representing accuracy and precision via cornhole
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Think Outside of the Box
Example 2 – Community service opportunities
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Think Outside of the Box
Example 2 – Community service opportunities
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Think Outside of the Box
Example 2 – Community service opportunities
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Think Outside of the Box
Example 2 – Community service opportunities
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Freebie
Nuclear Chemistry Lesson Plans • Available at dmeyers.site.portageps.org • Click on Conferences tab at top and look
under “2014 BCCE Survivor Skills” • Lesson plans, worksheets, labs available
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Contact
Dan Meyers • Chemistry Teacher • Portage Central High School • [email protected] • dmeyers.site.portageps.org • @MeyersChemistry