Explore mentoring relationships at different stages of a career in teaching. Uncover the best practices that are specific to the teaching profession. Name what makes these practices so effective at supporting and sustaining teachers as individuals and practitioners.
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Professional teacher mentoring builds school culture by supporting educators’ professional growth and psychosocial development. Mentoring relationships are most commonly used to help pre-service teachers grow and to guide new teacher induction. Yet mentors often struggle to find formal support and learning opportunities that can help them do their jobs better. Instead, most teacher mentors develop their practices by learning on the job, relying heavily on intuition and trial and error.
In Teachers Mentoring Teachers: Practices for Powerful Professional Communities, you’ll explore best practices in mentoring with seasoned mentors. And you’ll learn how to extend the power of mentoring to work with teachers across their careers. Over the course of six weeks, we’ll establish a foundation of practice for mentor teachers. We’ll learn how to create inclusive professional communities in which teachers work together, learn from one another, and support each other’s growth and development. And we’ll learn how to use mentoring in service of powerful learning opportunities for students.
Formal and informal mentoring relationships are not just valuable for beginners. They benefit us throughout our careers, as our needs change and our interests evolve. And while mentoring relationships have a positive impact on the mentee, they can provide transformative professional learning opportunities for the mentor as well. In this course, you’ll learn how to ensure benefit for both sides of the equation.
In this course, you’ll join Harvard faculty and experienced mentors who work directly with beginning and veteran teachers to hone their teaching and instructional leadership practice. You’ll contribute your own expertise and learn from that of your fellow practitioners as you address the following questions:
The course is divided into six one-week modules designed for you to grow as a mentor teacher. Each week consists of approximately three hours of online work and one practice challenge, during which you’ll apply your learning in your real-world context.
Through the weekly modules you’ll uncover the general characteristics of powerful mentoring relationships, the unique features of mentoring relationships at different stages of teaching, and your own authentic enactments of who you are and aspire to be as a mentor. Whether you are new to mentoring or an experienced mentor, you’ll learn practices that help you build your mentoring skills and seek out opportunities to be mentored by others.
