2010-11 Teacher Support Specialist Blog: Roles and Responsibilities of Mentoring

2010-11 Teacher Support Specialist Blog: Roles and Responsibilities of Mentoring: "After our first class and discussing roles and responsibilities of mentoring with your colleagues, think about your strengths as a mentor. A..."

The first TSS Mentor meeting really helped me understand my responsibilities as a mentor. Being a TSS Mentor is going to fun and a learning experience for me. I have already started to examine myself more, my procedures, my attitude, and my teaching style more frequently since the meeting. My strength as a mentor is that I am always to assist people that want to improve and love to share ideas, information, technology, and shortcuts in doing my job. About a week ago, I had the pleasure of demonstrating how to use the Scantron machine to my mentee. He was so thankful and so was his wife (smile). My poor mentee and wife had been grading his weekly assessments by hand! I apologized to him and her because I just thought he knew about the Scantron machine. Currently, I am working on a list of things to discuss with him and my other mentee so I won't be a "bad mentor" again. So the one thing that I am discussing with my new mentee is to discuss what to sort of expect for the next few weeks before the end of first semester and give a preview about the second semester expectations.