(The wiki stays open for reading, please send any comment to mentoringtesol@yahoogroups.com. Thanks to all those who particpated in this project!! Hope to see you in New Orleans!)
Welcome to the Mentoring Tesol EVO 2011 wiki!
We are going into Week Three with a membership of over 80 participants, from more than 20 different countries. We are spread across the world - north to south, east to west, but everyone has the same goal: professional development for all. This week we are focusing on particular aspects of the mentoring enterprise. For some, it's looking at how we manage a mentoring encounter, or how we manage a department, while maintaining a collegial atmosphere. For others, the focus is on the means of mentoring: face to face or virtual? Chatting in writing or chatting on the phone? Whichever way we get our mentoring done, let's document it. Share what's best . Begin inquiring why, and how we can improve it further. That's what Action Research is all about.
Welcome to this meeting place for mentors and aspiring mentors for TESOLers.
While together, we will explore and share stories, strategies, models, and ideas about effective mentoring as we investigate ways to help new teachers become confident and proficient in their new roles.
We will be raising our own levels of professional development and expertise while discovering, learning and discussing our own, and others', practice.
This five-week session will be participatory. Mentors or aspiring mentors will contribute from their own experience as teachers of ESOL in their many and varied contexts, in English-speaking regions and in non -English speaking surroundings.
We will use some special communication tools to enable us to hear from experts - and from new teachers - and discuss face-to-face or voice-to-voice the issues that relate to the important practice of mentoring.
Valerie, Marina and Shefali
Communication Tools to be Used
Communication Media
Our Skype IDs: Valerie: vs_jakar, Marina: minushkigonzalez, Shefali: shefaliray
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Comments (27)
Buthaina AlOthmn said
at 6:53 pm on Dec 7, 2010
Marina, I like the new photo of all of you added on the wiki front page! It added a kind of action and life to the page...Great job..
shefali_ray@hotmail.com said
at 12:44 pm on Jan 8, 2011
Hi, Buthania. This is Shefali. I am happy you liked the pictures. Good to know that we would be working together. Valerie and Marina are great tio work with!
Yuly Asencion said
at 12:34 am on Jan 9, 2011
Hello from Arizona.
Felipe Augusto Parisi Longo said
at 12:43 am on Jan 9, 2011
Hi from Brazil.
John Conway said
at 8:46 am on Jan 9, 2011
Hello to everyone from Armenia
John Conway said
at 8:52 am on Jan 9, 2011
I meant hello to everyone. I live in Armenia
thalia said
at 9:25 am on Jan 9, 2011
Hello from Athens, Greece.
Benjamin L. Stewart, PhD said
at 9:34 am on Jan 9, 2011
Hello all from Aguascalientes, Mexico!
RobbyMorroy said
at 9:40 am on Jan 9, 2011
Hello everyone! I am from Suriname where I am a teacher trainer. I am ready to learn to use an online group as well as learn more about mentoring. I would also like to share my hits and misses in the training of teachers.
Benjamin L. Stewart, PhD said
at 9:44 am on Jan 9, 2011
Curious, when I enter Yahoo Groups to view posts, I receive the following message: "You are not a moderator of the group mentoringTESOL." Is anyone else receiving this message?
carmendell64@... said
at 10:01 am on Jan 9, 2011
Ciao from Italy! I'm happy to be here and to share my experiences with you.
Anna Conway said
at 10:08 am on Jan 9, 2011
Hello to everyone! I am from Armenia and am looking forward to learning with and from you.
carmendell64@... said
at 10:10 am on Jan 9, 2011
Sorry, but I cannot see what I typed some hours ago
shefali_ray@hotmail.com said
at 11:09 am on Jan 9, 2011
Hello to everyone who has joined our group. Wow! We have members from Arizona, Brazil, Armenia, Greece, Mexico, Surinam, Italy, Argentina, Israel and India. (Hope I did not miss anyone!) I am from India. We look forward to different ideas of mentoring in varied contexts and formats, as we shall be sharing our experiences over these few weeks.
Welcome to the Mentoring Group.
EvridikiDakos said
at 3:20 pm on Jan 9, 2011
Hi all, I am Evridiki from Turkey ( Greek in origin). Happy to be with you! :)
Viktoria Elgina said
at 1:21 am on Jan 10, 2011
Hello from Kansas. I am currently teaching here, though I am originally from Russia. I am excited to be a part of this group, share and learn! :)
shefali_ray@hotmail.com said
at 9:13 am on Jan 10, 2011
Welcome, Evridiki and Victoria, to the Mentoring Group. We look forward to a lot of sharing over these few weeks.
marina gonzalez said
at 9:22 am on Jan 10, 2011
Hello everyone! my pleasure to share this space with you, lerning from others and learning about ourselves in every step we make! well' that's my reading of mentoring in a nutshell! I simply love being connected with people from so diffeent places! Shefali, valerie and I, together with laura and gabriel ahve een working together for some years now on mentoring and we hope you willl exand our group!
anna.turula@gmail.com said
at 4:35 pm on Jan 10, 2011
Hi, I'm Anna and I'm a teacher trainer with a college in Poland. Mentoring is something I'd like to investigate to be better at what I do.
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Angela said
at 7:45 am on Jan 12, 2011
Hello from Barcelona! I'm Angela and I'm Canadian and completely new to mentoring. I'm looking forward to learning!!
Benjamin L. Stewart, PhD said
at 1:11 pm on Jan 12, 2011
Questions I'll be asking myself throughout the course: 1) When does the mentoring process conclude, if at all? 2) How much of the mentoring process is directive, collaborative, and/or nondirective? and 3) Is it recommended to focus on one individual or a network of individuals for providing a mentorship?
shefali_ray@hotmail.com said
at 11:57 am on Jan 13, 2011
I feel that the mentoring process might be a long lasting one in many life situations. Commonly, the process might conclude when the mentee feels confident enough to handle students, curriculum and methods with efficiency and develops as an independent teacher. I feel much of mentoring is non-directive and collaborative. That is where it differs from the role of the superviser where both are trying to satisfy a professional criteria.
RobbyMorroy said
at 11:03 am on Jan 17, 2011
Basing ourselves on the idea that mentoring is both cognitive and social, we have added an online reflection tool to our mentoring process for pre-service teachers. These trainees do an internship at a school. All the interns write about a critical incident they have experienced in class and reflect on their feelings about the facts. They save it in a special WORD file that allows locking of the first person's work and adding text by another. The file is sent to everyone in the same cohort, as well as to the mentors. Everyone adds individual comments and the first person can easily collect the comments and put it into one file to have an overview of everybody's comments. I feel that this process can continue throughout one's career and mentoring in this way does not have to stop.
shefali_ray@hotmail.com said
at 12:35 pm on Jan 17, 2011
Having different persons comment on a single experience must be enriching as the same experience can be seen from different perspectives. I guess the mentor would step in if the mentee received conflicting opinions on an experience. This helps to present a more holisitc picture of a learning situation.
RobbyMorroy said
at 2:50 pm on Jan 17, 2011
You're right. There may be conflicting comments. So we've decided to add a face tot face meeting after everyone has had their say. Most of the time the interns solve the conflicting comments among themselves. The mentor really only steps in occasionally.
shefali_ray@hotmail.com said
at 12:57 pm on Jan 18, 2011
Learning to solve the conflicting comments by themselves is a step towards independent problem solving. This also gives the interns an opportunity to collaborate and become interdependent. I have found that when the mentees sit and work on a problem together they often come up with brilliant ideas, I may not have thought of .
Priscilla Ubillus said
at 6:55 pm on Jan 26, 2011
Hey There from Ecuador, I'm Priscilla and love to "read" fro mu and want to learn lots about Mentoring
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