Mentors

=Visual Arts & Music Mentors=

http://lesliegates.wikispaces.com [|www.davidberlin.com]


 * Essential Responsibilities of the Art and Music Mentor:**

 1. **Collaborate with participants to discuss participant's personal goals, existing areas of expertise, and potential areas of growth. **(Analyze learner characteristics in relation to task(s) to be learned. Develop and use a needs assessment tool to determine and assess effectiveness of proposed training.)

2. **Assist teachers in identifying developing a personal professional development goal that they believe will result in increased student learning. ** (Develop learning objectives and choose an instructional approach.)

3. **Engage participants in a discussion about the ways in which their personal professional development goal can be met (what must be learned, what supplies or materials are necessary, what counts as evidence, and how increased teacher and student learning might be documented). ** (Interact with stakeholder(s) to develop specifications for content of teacher training. Suggest instructional materials. Assess the results of the instruction. Make sure the materials and learning experiences achieved the desired goals.)

4. **Mentors will serve as resources to participants as they work towards meeting their PPDP goals, including unit-design and (optional) implementation. ** (Ensure that course content and material reflects current unit-design specifications and features and builds needed competencies/skills. Review problems arising during participant’s learning process and help them to mitigate those problems.)

5. **Mentors will participate in a group (including grant evaluator, grant director, partners, and others) to evaluate teachers' progress towards meeting PPDP goals. ** (Conduct follow-up evaluations/surveys to determine applicability of course material and to assess stakeholder needs for future training development.)


 * David, I think what you've done here, in a sense, is mapped out your areas of expertise and resources that you can provide to participants. I find it valuable for us as professional to be clear about our areas of expertise and resources that we have access to. I'm going to create a list at the bottom as well...eventually. **
 * Additional assets that can be provided by the music mentor:**
 * Provide as many as several hundred useful Internet resources for the music teacher to use with students.
 * Make available original, proprietary E-learning instructional web sites that apply the principles of linear, gated and branching programmed instruction as proposed by B.F. Skinner and others more than a half century ago. For example:
 * Here is one where the elementary school student uses transformational geometry to create new and original music: http://tozier.net/dberlin/stf/index.htm
 * Here is one for beginning music literacy http://tozier.net/dberlin/pte/index.htm
 * Here is one in both visual art and music with obvious connections to standards in other content areas. It is based on a work that hangs in the Carnegie in Pittsburgh. (Image used with permission) (Stand facing the big Monet, turn to the right and look at the far wall to find it.)[|http://tozier.net/dberlin/the old king/index.htm]


 * This lists important parts of conversations that we need to have with participants. Is there a way to include/merge this with the PPDP example that I created? It seems to me that they ask a lot of the same questions. **

ABSOLUTELY!!...the less duplication, redundancy and confusion the better. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I have been working on a document/questionaire/needs assessment to help identify participant needs and to stimulate some thinking about the professional development program. I believe this is the kind of information the mentors may need. I also recognize that some people will not be comfortable with certain information being made public on this WIKI or any other Internet asset. (comments and edits are encouraged) DBerlin

The Needs Assessment: Demographics:

Last Name _ First Name _ __Address__ _ __Phone__ _ Other Phone School District Building_ __Address___ Phone ___

Technology assets you have including details such as kind, type, operating system

Technology Needs: What additional assets including hardware and/or, software is needed in a perfect world to realize your proposed unit?

What is your preferred learning style?

To find DISCOVER YOUR PREFERRED LEARNING STYLE go to http://www.brainboxx.co.uk/A3_ASPECTS/pages/VAK_quest.htm and take the quiz.

Who will find this endeavor of value or significant?

In what ways will the stakeholders find this endeavor to be of use or significant?

How or in what ways will this be of use or of value?

GOALS:

Objectives: What will you be able to do at the end of this project that you can not do now? 1: 2: 3: (add more as needed)

How will the objectives be achieved: Step 1: Step 2: Step 3:

(Add more as needed)

(How will we measure success and how will it be documented?)