UCI Mentor Teachers

This site houses mentoring modules that will help you support your student teacher throughout the year.  These modules include information, resources and activities that you and your student teacher can explore together.  The modules are intended to be incorporated into your daily work together, rather than as additional tasks unrelated to classroom goals.*  You can choose from the following list of modules by clicking on the title below or the tabs above:

Program Overview

• MAT Single Subject Mentoring Overview and Handbook [1.5 hours]

• MAT Multiple Subject Mentoring Overview and Handbook [1.5 hours]

• CalTeach Mentoring Overview [1.5 hours]

Modules

• 6 Mentoring Practices [each 1 hour]

  • 1) Making your thinking explicit [1 hour]

  • 2) Modeling the work of teaching [1 hour]

  • 3) Pre-briefing and De-briefing [1 hour]

  • 4) Co-planning [1 hour]

  • 5) Co-teaching [1 hour]

  • 6) Analyzing student work together [1 hour]

• Distance Learning Support [1.5 hours]

• Building a Relationship with your Student Teacher [1.5 hours]

• Providing In the Moment Feedback [1.5 hours]

• Modeling UDL [1.5 hours]

• edTPA Overview +Literacy Task 4 [1.5 hours]

• High Leverage Practices [1.5 hours]

• Classroom Management Support [1.5 hours]

•  Shared Observation [1.5 hours]

• Literacy Task (Multiple Subject only) [1.5 hours]

• Computational Thinking in Math and Science [1 hour]

• Supporting Art Candidates

• Developing Analytical Thinking in the History Classroom [ 1.5 hours]

BAP Modules for Bilingual Authorization Program (BAP) MS Mentors 

• Introductory Module [1.5 hours]

  • Translanguaging [1.5 hours]

  • Bridging Lessons for Contrastive Analysis of the Two Languages [1.5 hours]

  • BAP Resources [1 hour]

Additional Ways to Earn PD Hours

• 10 hours certificate of completion from another CA credential program [8 hours]

• BTSA or Induction Support Provider Training from your district or county [5 hours]

• Meeting and conferencing with the UCI Supervisor [1 hour]

• Attending the Orientation at UCI for mentor teachers and discussing with Student Teacher [2 hours]

Also, please feel free to email us and make suggestions of ways to make this site useful to you.

We look forward to working with you!

Kris Houston, CalTeach, houstonk@uci.edu, 

Myuriel von Aspen, Multiple Subject MAT, vonaspen@uci.edu 

Stacy Yung, Single Subject MAT, syung@uci.edu  

Susan Guilfoyle, Bilingual Authorization Program Coordinator, sguilfoy@uci.edu 

*The Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) requires that all new mentor teachers engage in 10 hours of professional development on effective mentoring.   If you have been a mentor teacher for UCI recently, you are not required to complete these 10 hours. However, we encourage you to engage in modules you find useful for providing support to your student teacher. For all new UCI mentors, 4 of the required hours will be completed through attending a fall orientation and collaborating with UCI supervisors during fall and winter visits. The remaining six hours will be completed through the modules on this website. The amount of time required to complete each module will depend on the way you and your student teacher engage with the suggested activities and resources.