Mentoring in Jordan School District is essential to retaining and supporting new teachers in their first three years of teaching. Each year provisional teachers are identified and provided a mentor. Below are a few reminders and updates.
Reminders:
- Make sure you know who your lead mentor teacher is. Decide if this individual will remain the lead mentor or if you need to assign a new lead mentor.
- Have teachers who are interested in becoming mentors sign up for the mentor training on JPLS. Teachers cannot mentor if they are provisional or if they are not trained.
- All mentors will be recertified every 5 years. Teachers will be notified when they need to recertify. Teachers who do not recertify will no longer be able to mentor.
- Administrators are to work directly with lead mentors in assigning mentors and mentees.
Updates:
- Mentors and mentees must be logging all meetings they have on their shared log.
- Mentors, mentees, and lead mentors have clearly defined roles with each contributing to the partnership.
- Mentors, mentees, and lead mentors have updated contracts that must be signed at the beginning of the mentoring partnership.
- Quarterly surveys are sent out to mentees and mentors to gather information as to how district mentor specialists can provide needed support.
- Each school needs to have a designated administrator over mentoring at their school. This will facilitate communication between district mentor specialists, teachers, and administration.
- The administrator over mentoring, at their school, will have specific duties. See attached information.
- Each school will need to complete the administrator mentor survey indicating which school administrator will be over mentoring. Mentoring Survey