Maine Mentor Trainers

As the school year gets rolling, your mentors will be busy providing a lot of guidance and support to our beginning educators. One standard from Maine’s Initial Teacher Certification Standards that our mentors ask about frequently is Standard Nine.

When I was facilitating a Mentors Training Mentors workshop in East Millinocket one of our mentor trainers, Deb Berry of Hampden Academy,  shared this sentence starter. “It is really important to me for you to be successful. I’m concerned . . . “     I have to admit I have already used this with my teenager at home! I’m sure that it would be also extremely effective when working with beginning educators. If you have other ways that you begin “challenging” conversations, please post them here or on our mentor trainer listserv. (You may post to the listserv by sending an email to mainementortrainers@lists.maine.gov)