Mentor Teacher Ag Education, GCHS (E27-001-13a)

Mentor Teacher

Qualifications:

Must be an experienced teacher. Prefer individual to be on staff at the same school and teach same/similar subject as teacher to be mentored. Be recommended by the principal and/or faculty senate. Be recommended by the county superintendent. Successfully complete WV state mentor training. Comply with all other requirements of WV Code §18A-3c-3, WV Policy 5500, WV Policy 5202.

Supervision:
The mentor teacher will provide supervision to a beginning teacher for the purpose of providing assistance for induction into job assignment. The mentor teacher will receive supervision from, and be responsible to the building supervisor.

Responsibilities:

• Participate as a member of a professional support team assigned to the beginning teacher. This team shall be responsible for providing supervision for all areas of the beginning teacher's job description and assignments.
• Attend, supervise, and extend the county and school employee orientations held during the first part of the employment year.
• Cooperate in an effort to coordinate his/her planning period with that of the beginning teacher, if possible.
• Observe the beginning teacher's classroom teaching skills for a minimum of 1 hour every 2 weeks. Observation time will be at the discretion of the mentor teacher in consultation with the principal.
• Provide supervision through weekly meetings with the beginning teacher. During these meetings the mentor and beginning teacher will discuss the performance of the beginning teacher and any needed improvements. (During the second semester if the mentor teacher and principal decide that the observations described in the previous item may be reduced, weekly meetings may also be reduced to those held every other week.)
• Participate in monthly meetings of the support team to discuss the performance of the beginning teacher.
• Participate in the design, planning, and implementation of and/or make recommendations of staff development activities for completion by the beginning teacher as documented on the mentor checklist to provide support to beginning teachers as noted in the Gilmer County WVSIPP.
• Cooperate in being released from regular duties to perform the duties of the Mentor (Alternative to the position of substitute teachers may be sought.)
• Complete the WV Teacher training Mentor Program.
• Assume other duties as directed by the building principal.

Salary: $750 Gilmer County accepts applications/bid sheets electronically. Please direct any questions about the posting to the Office of the Superintendent. As required by federal law and regulations, the Gilmer County Board of Education does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, marital status, disability, age and national origin in employment and in the administration of any of its education programs or activities.

Inquiries may be referred to Title IX Coordinator, Gilmer County Board of Education, 454 Vanhorn Drive. Glenville, WV 26351, phone ; to the Elimination of Sex Discrimination Program Coordinator ; or the US Department of Education's Director of the Office of Civil Rights .