(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
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Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MentoringTESOL/
- Website: http://mentoringtesol.pbworks.com
- Skype communications system:
Our Skype IDs: Valerie: vs_jakar, Marina: minushkigonzalez, Shefali: shefaliray
- Tapped In: http://tappedin.org/tappedin/
- Elluminate vClass (The Webheads vOffice in LearningTimes.org) http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=273662
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