Mentoring is a partnership created to help support new teachers by providing them with a veteran teacher to discuss topics confidentially and to provide guidance. As a mentor, we hope you will find that this experience provides you with great satisfaction by helping a colleague and obtaining an opportunity to grow as a teacher leader in the building. Remember, we all faced our first days in our classroom with excitement, anxiety, and feelings of being overwhelmed. Hopefully, you had a wonderful mentor who provided the guidance which made those first few years more bearable. This will be your chance to pass your wisdom and experiences to help your mentee to discover how wonderful it is to be part of the Beaufort County Staff.
The monthly checklist will provide a beginning dialogue on specific topics for your meetings. This document does not assume that you must check each box each month. It is a guide to help the mentor and the mentee make the most of the time that they share together. Don’t get caught up in checking the boxes.