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Mentor Teacher Resource Guide | Struggles on the road to success...
Resource Guide for Working with ESL Students | Course Syllabi | Professional Development
FYI | Conference Presentations

Mentor teachers who work with PDS interns agree to take on the new role of teacher educator in addition to their traditional role of classroom teaching. Sometimes those teachers who are new to mentoring, as well as those who are more experienced, have questions about various aspects of the role. The "Mentor Teacher Resource Guide" below is organized in a question and answer format to enable mentors to obtain quick answers to their questions. Mentors and other teachers also are involved in the development of methods course syllabi through our course planning teams. Links to the various syllabi created by the planning teams are available here. Links to professional development opportunities for mentors and all other professional educators within the PDS schools are also featured on this page. Finally, mentors play a key role in conducting their own teacher inquiry projects and supporting those of interns as well. These projects are presented at the annual teacher inquiry conference.

Mentor Teacher Resource Guide

A. What is the purpose of this resource guide?
B. What are the goals of the Penn State - State College Elementary PDS Partnership?
C. How did the Elementary PDS Partnership Evolve?
D. What does the work of a mentor and intern look like in a Professional Development School?
E. What might my intern and I be doing in August and September?
F. What might my intern and I be doing in October?
G. What might my intern and I be doing in November?
H. What might my intern and I be doing in December?
I. What might my intern and I be doing in January/February/March?
J. What might my intern and I be doing in April/May/June?
K. What is my role as a school-based teacher educator?
L. How can I support my intern's growth and development?
M. What are some supervision/coaching techniques I can use as a school-based teacher educator?
N. What are the possibilities for mentor teacher learning in a PDS?
O. How are interns graded?
P. What is the intern attendance policy?
Q. What are the roles and responsibilities of other PDS professionals?
R. How does the PSU Conceptual Framework help organize the internship experience?
S. What is the PDS Steering Group?

Struggles on the road to success; If my intern struggles, what should I know, what should I do?

A Guide for Mentors and PDA’s Based on Insights and Recommendations from the Struggling Intern Study. By Lynne Sanders, PDA, 2006

Download paper here. [pdf]

Resource Guide for Working with ESL Students

This handbook, prepared by Ellen Key, provides ideas for working effectively with learners whose native language is not English. Although the handbook was prepared with an audience of beginning teachers in mind, the information might be helpful to all teachers. If you have questions or comments, contact Ellen Key at eek130@psu.edu.

Resource Guide for Working with ESL Students [pdf]

Course Syllabi

Current year--2008-2009

Previous Years

Professional Development

FYI...Educational Website Database

Teachers needed a place to store the tried-and-true website resources that they have identified on the World Wide Web and have used in conjunction with State College units. The FYI…Educational Website Database (FYI) was created to house curriculum-related web sites recommended by teachers.

FYI is located on a College of Education server at Penn State University:
http://www.ed.psu.edu/pds/fyi

Download the FYI User Guide (pdf)


Conference Presentations

The following Teacher Inquiry Conference links will take you out of the Mentor Resources section and into the Teacher Inquiry section of the website. To return to Mentor Resources, press the "Mentor Resources" button in the left navigation.
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