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2-7-2002
their first few years of teaching
- nationally 1.7 - 2.7 million new teachers needed by 2008 (retirements, very
high and frightening rate of teacher attrition)
- 45,000 teaching vacancies in Texas alone in start of 2001 year
- > 30% of Texas teachers leave the profession during their first 2 years of
full-time teaching
- SBEC formed a few years ago requres adherence to unfunded 1991 mandate by
2004: all teacher prep programs must have some concrete way of supporting
teachers during their induction years (years 1 and 2 of fulltime service)
- must provide support and supervision during this period
- harder with larger numbers of graduates who move all over the country
- provides face to face statewide and regional conferences
- series of videoconferences in the Spring (regional)
- tend to be 'collaboratories'
- telementoring
- public discussion forum
- information on demand
University of Texas, Austin
http://teachnet.edb.utexas.edu/
volunteered (if selected by new teacher / protege) to serve as a mentor -
usually by email - from student teaching on
- protege's go to our database, 92 have not yet been claimed by a mentor
- database software matches these up, protege's enter what they would like help
with most
(instead of just asking 'what is your teaching philosophy')
-Brief description (content area(s) & grade level(s), etc.) of your current
work:
- Please describe your teaching experience, including areas of
specialization/certification and number of years of service.
- Please choose one of your favorite learning activities for students and
describe it. What, in particular, do you like about it?
- Please describe the nature of classroom interactions on "your best day at
school.
- What do you like MOST about teaching? Why?
- What do you like LEAST about teaching? Why?
- In your opinion, what are the greatest needs of student teachers and novice
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- What would you do as a telementor to assist one new teacher to meet some of
the needs described above?
- Please supply any other information that novice teachers seeking telementors
should consider while reading about you at the WINGS Online Web site.
then a facilitator (student RAs) contacts the mentor and asks them if they want
this match. They then follow up with mentor and protege to insure that
mentors can request a new discussion area
put in requests for specific information
database entry, then the person who requested the entry gets the info and it
also gets placed into the database
someone needs it, participants get the info they need and then it becomes part
of the archive of information
- "A Collaboration Among the Colleges of Education, Liberal Arts, and Natural
Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin"
facilitators, lots of others
- this is to support over 2000 people
- WINGS project now has collected a lot of 'stories' about the interactions
between mentors and facilitators
- curriculum
- classroom management
- emotional
really had their lives changed because of personal interactions this program
has fostered
qualitative differences between the online mentoring versus face to face
mentoring (Karen is doing doctoral research on this)
- online mentoring can be a lot 'safter' for the protege
- just communicate on discussion web with first names,no last names
into the archives'
- can customize the header information (like to from) to preserve anonymity
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- Judi said a grant program may be looking at creating an open source version
of this
- Ultimate Bulletin board - for discussions
- Lyrus - drives email discussions between mentors and proteges
- information demand
curbing attrition (quantifiable numbers)
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