Richard D. Solomon's Blog on Mentoring Jewish Students and Teachers

Our hope is that this blog will become a forum in which people can exchange ideas on how to recruit, develop and retain exceptional Jewish educators through mentoring and e-mentoring students, teaching candidates, and teachers in our day and supplemental schools. The present focus of this blog is to empower Jewish teachers, administrators, teacher trainers, consultants, and staff developers to integrate web technology (i.e. web tools and apps) into their teaching and teacher training.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Strategic Questions a Mentor Can Pose to a Mentee After Teaching a Lesson

Sample Strategic Questions A Mentor Can Pose to a Mentee After Teaching A Lesson

(*Lipton, et al., 2001)

Sample questions that activate prior knowledge and engage the mentee

Sample questions that are expansive and help the mentee explore options

· Now that the lesson is over, what if any, are some of your questions or concerns about this lesson?

· How satisfied are you that your students were able to respond to the essential questions that you posed during the lesson?

· How satisfied are you with the assessments you used for this lesson?

· Did your lesson meet the needs of ...?

· Would you say direct instruction was an effective method of teaching for this lesson? Please explain your thinking.

· How well did you handle ... when he disrupted the class?

· What did you like most and least about today's lesson?

· How did this lesson relate to enduring Jewish knowledge?

· Are there other essential questions that could have been incorporated into this lesson?

· What other assessments could you have used for this lesson?

· Upon reflection, are there other methods of teaching that you should have used for this lesson?

· Given this opportunity to think through today's lesson, what are some specific actions you intend to take in future?

· As you reflect on today's lesson, what are some of the things that come to mind?

· What have you learned from today's post conference?

· What other methods can you use next time to handle ... when he disrupts the class?

* Adapted from Lipton, L., Wellman, B. & Humbard, D. (2001). Mentoring Matters: A Practical Guide to Learning-focused Relationships: Sherman, CT: Mira Via, LLC.

On the next blog post we will present a summary of all the internal reflection methods and formats that we have presented.