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Professional Development
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Formal and informal mentoring relationships are not just valuable for beginners. They benefit us throughout our careers, as our needs change and our interests evolve. And while mentoring relationships have a positive impact on the mentee, they can provide transformative professional learning opportunities for the mentor as well. In this course, you’ll learn how to ensure benefit for both sides of the equation.
Teachers Mentoring Teachers will help you reflect on your personal experiences and stories of mentoring, establish a common language, and examine the technical and relational skills, knowledge, and dispositions to help you grow not only in your own mentoring practice but also in assisting others to do the same.
In this course, we will explore mentoring relationships at different stages of a teaching career. We aim to uncover the practices specific to the teaching profession and name what makes them so effective in supporting and sustaining teachers as individuals and practitioners.
Together, we'll tackle the following questions:
The course is divided into six one-week modules designed to help you grow as a mentor teacher. Each week consists of approximately three hours of online work and one practice challenge, during which you’ll apply your learning in your real-world context.
Through the weekly modules you’ll uncover the general characteristics of powerful mentoring relationships, the unique features of mentoring relationships at different stages of teaching, and your own authentic enactments of who you are and aspire to be as a mentor. Whether you are new to mentoring or an experienced mentor, you’ll learn practices that help you build your mentoring skills and seek out opportunities to be mentored by others.
Week 1: Identifying your Mentor SelfWeek 2: Building Mentoring RelationshipsWeek 3: Mentoring through Personal ChallengeWeek 4: Mentoring Student and Apprentice TeachersWeek 5: Mentoring Early Career TeachersWeek 6: Build Your Mentor Identity and Professional Learning Network
Noah Heller focuses on developing effective approaches to practice-based teacher education, teacher leadership and learning, and mathematics pedagogy.
Katherine Rieser's research connects teacher education pedagogy with anti-racist best practices in K-12 schools.
(On Leave 2024-2025)
This program welcomes registrations from both individuals and teams. First-time registrants need to create a Professional Education account to register.
Individuals: Click the “Register” button at the top of this page to log into your Professional Education account and access the registration page. Proceed with the individual form until submission. Invoices will be immediately available upon the submission of the form.
Teams: Designate one participant or an administrative staff member as the Coordinator.
Professional Education is excited to offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for your successful participation in this program. The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is a nationally and internationally recognized unit of measurement for non-credit continuing education programs. As an IACET Accredited Provider, Professional Education offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard.
Requirements to be eligible to earn CEUs:
Upon successfully meeting all requirements outlined above, you will be notified via email that you have A) earned the certificate of completion for the program and B) are now eligible to earn CEUs. This email will contain the link to complete the required reflection assignment if you wish to receive CEUs, along with a submission deadline and time frame for receiving your CEUs. After submitting your reflection assignment, we will notify you via email of your CEU status, and if you have met all requirements, you will be able to download and view your CEU certificate at this point in time. ILC modules are eligible for 2 CEUs.
Note: Professional Education is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard. IACET is recognized internationally as a standard development organization and accrediting body that promotes the quality of continuing education and training.
Tuition assistance is available for this program on a need and application basis. Tuition assistance is granted based on participant and institutional needs. Requests for tuition assistance do not affect an applicant's prospects for admission. You may access the tuition assistance application after you have submitted your program application. Tuition assistance applications should be submitted at least one month prior to the final application deadline.