Foundational Elements of Mentorship
Creating a Mentoring Web
Learners at the Centre - Mentoring for All
Building Relational Trust
Ideas from Mentors Across Ontario
Facilitating Learning Focused Conversations
A Conversation Map for Mediating Thinking
Providing Meaningful and Growth Oriented Feedback
Scaling Questions as a Tool for Debriefing
Appreciative Inquiry as a Tool for Reflection and Growth
Themes of Success from Ontario Mentors
Utilizing Powerful Mentoring Designs
Mentoring as Authentic Learning
Observation and Debriefing Protocols
Learning from the New Teacher Induction Program
Practical Ideas from Dufferin-Peel CDSB
Building Relational Trust (Nov 30, 2016)
- Modeling for colleagues by engaging in positive talk
- Listening, listening, listening
- Sharing ideas of colleagues with rest of the team
- Sharing your own challenges
- Sharing responsibilities
- Engaging in respectful dialogue and avoiding gossip
- Being consistent
- Sharing vision for department
More Ideas from across Ontario
Appreciative Inquiry - Themes of Success (March 9, 2017)
- Being patient and persevering as we do not always seeing immediate impact of our actions and words
- Being open to collaboration
- Engaging in respectful dialogue
- Understanding that small actions can have big impact
- Working as a team to support students
- Celebrating success
- Modelling genuine care
- Having perspective of what is success
- Being open ourselves to reciprocal learning
- Recognizing the importance of timing of our support
- Inspiring our colleague(s) by believing in them
- Thinking about....accept, accepting, acceptance
- Seeing potential in the person (colleague or student)
- Sharing passion and happiness
Observable Indicators of Learning Focused Conversations
- Eye contact
- Outstretched hand / Hand gestures
- Gestures to map conversation
- Shared dialogue guided by mentor's questions
- Leaning in
- Nodding
- Mirroring in body language / tone of voice
