Check out our short guides to each practice, our videos, and tools
you can print out and use today.
Download Overview PDF >Mentoring practices overview
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A 3-minute guide to learning routines that mentors and teacher candidates do together
Tools to Use Today
Six routines that represent opportunities for the teacher candidate to learn.
Modeling
Modeling refers to demonstrating some part of the work of teaching under authentic circumstances for a specific purpose
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Co-Teaching
Co-teaching refers to intentionally sharing teaching responsibilities with your TC, where you both play active roles in instruction during the same lesson.
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Pre-Brief / Debrief
Pre-briefing and debriefing refer to short discussions you have with the teacher candidate before and after a teaching episode, an encounter with a student, or an interaction with a parent.
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Co-Planning
Co-planning with feedback involves you and the teacher candidate working together to design or modify aspects of instruction.
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Making Thinking Explicit
Making your thinking explicit involves describing the reasoning behind the instructional decisions you make, or the ways you respond to professional situations.
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Analyzing Student Work
You and your teacher candidate examine artifacts from students to unpack patterns in their understandings or experiences and determine how to respond instructionally.
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Another way to learn about the practices.
We have videos for each practice, and this one represents an overview of all of them. This short animation provides examples of routines you can use and the circumstances in which you’d use them. Teacher candidates can also benefit from watching these, it’s not a bad idea to view them together!