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• Background •

The New Teacher Center-Wisconsin (NTC-WI) and the Dane County New Teacher Project (DCNTP) offers a unique and exciting learning opportunity for those who support beginning teachers. Over the past two decades, the New Teacher Center, has been a leader in the development and refinement of a high quality mentor curriculum, including this two-day professional development. NTC-WI has tailored New Teacher Center workshops to carefully reflect the Wisconsin Teacher Standards in mentor tools, strategies and principles.

• Content •

Coaches and mentors find themselves in a prime position to guide beginning teachers in identifying student needs in order to plan for differentiated instruction. With the goal in mind of improving the performance of all students and ensuring equitable learning outcomes, this two-day professional development will provide mentors with processes and strategies for examining content standards and assessment in relation to student data. Such processes and strategies will aid mentors as they collaborate with new teachers and guide differentiated classroom lessons based learning needs.

• Professional Development Topics •

· Exploring the Rationale and Purpose for Analyzing Student Work to Guide Instruction

· Becoming Familiar with a Process and Protocol for Examining Student Data

· Practicing a Mentoring Conversation around the Examination of Student Work

· Learning a Scaffold for Differentiating Instruction

· Applying the Process to Wisconsin Teacher Standards

• Intended Audience •

This professional development is particularly appropriate for mentor teachers, teacher leaders, instructional coaches, curriculum directors, principals and others who provide support for beginning teachers.

• Materials •

Analysis of Student Work Teacher Induction Module – includes professional development materials that support the processing of information; a conversation guide to help mentors to understanding the purpose, rationale and suggested use of the tool and other resources; samples of completed tools and protocols; blank copies of each tool and a DVD of conversations between a mentor and a beginning teacher while engaged in using the tool or protocol.

• Credit •

One credit is available through the Cardinal Stritch University-Milwaukee. Please visit heir website at http://www.stritch.edu/mentoringcertificate for additional information.

For more information, please contact:

Sharon Nelson, Regional Director snelson@newteachercenter.org 608-849-2858

Monica Schommer, DCNTP Co-Chairperson monica_schommer@marshall.k12.wi.us 608-849-2493

Melissa Ohm, Project Manager mohm@newteachercenter.org 608-849-2270