Cooperating Teacher Mentor Training

Cooperating teachers and field supervisors of student teachers are required by State law to complete mentor training within the first three weeks of the student teachers' placements.

Instructions

Select “Begin” to start the first of 15 sections when you enter the site. 

• Advance from section to section by simply clicking the panel at the bottom or top of the page depending on which direction you want to move.
• In order to receive a completion on the training, you must submit responses to the reflective questions located at the end of sections 1 (Vision for Coaching), 3 (CT Roles), 11 (Observations), 12 (Post-Conferences), and 14 (Attending to the 3 Cs). The section 1 reflective questions can be found after the Longhorn Creed.  Once you have entered your responses to the reflective questions in a particular section, please be sure to use the submit button before advancing to the next section.  If you do not use the submit button, your responses will not be saved.
• If you leave and re-enter the site before finishing the training, the navigation panel starts back at 0% completion.  Just start back where you left off. There’s no need to re-submit responses to reflective questions already submitted.
• ***Important*** Please allow us time to manually check in your 5 sections of the submissions to the reflective questions.  Expect to receive a reply from us with your completion notification between the hours of 8 AM to 5 PM.  
• This training will take approximately 90 minutes.

*New* Navigating through the Interactive Graphics

When using the links in the interactive graphics in sections 4 and 9 to advance to the next section, the link opens up a new browser and the progress panel on the left will show a 0% completion. Your responses to the reflective questions already submitted are recorded, so please disregard this message of 0% completion and continue with the module. 

The interactive graphic in section 4 (Strategies to Make Practice Visible) takes you through the following modules:

• Shadowing (Section 5)
• Purposeful Observations (Section 6)        
• Co-Teaching (Section 7)

While going through each section, use the “Go Back” orange button to return to the interactive graphic in section 4.  Once you have completed all of these sections, use the panel at the bottom of the page to advance to section 8.

The interactive graphic in section 9 (Overview of the CARE Coaching Cycle) takes you through the following modules:

• Pre-Conferences (Section 10)
• Observations (Section 11)
• Post-Conference (Section 12)
• Planning (Section 13)

While going through each section, use the “Go Back” orange button to return to the interactive graphic in section 9.  Once you have completed all of these sections, use the panel at the bottom of the page to advance to section 14.

If you have any questions regarding the Mentor Training requirement, please email Jenny.carney@austin.utexas.edu .