Professional Issues

Mentoring Scenarios

Articulation

• Your role: Teacher

• Your task: Mentor a colleague from another school

• The problem: Lack of

articulation between high school and college language programs

Contextualization• Your role is: Teacher

• Your task: Mentor a colleague who wants to make language learning more meaningful for students

• The problem: How to

contextualize grammar & vocabulary

Classroom Management

• Your role: Teacher

• Your task: Mentor a colleague

• The problem : Difficult students who are off task a lot and complain they don’t understand

Professional Communication

• Your role: Teacher

• Your task: Mentor a colleague who has asked your advice about working with their assigned mentor

• The problem is conflicts in teaching philosophies

Supplemental Materials

• Your role: Teacher

• Your task: Mentor a colleague

• The problem: Lack of communicative activities in a Level I textbook

Shared Space

• Your role: Teacher

• Your task: Mentor a colleague who has to share a classroom with another teacher

• The problem:

Communication about how to arrange and decorate the classroom

Strong Personalities

• Your role: Teacher

• Your task: Mentor a colleague who is being pushed to teach a certain way by peers

• The problem:

“Pushy” colleagues

Target Language Use

• Your role: Teacher

• Your task: Mentor a colleague who is worried about giving explanations and instructions in the target language

• The problem: Mentor only uses English and thinks students will misbehave if you use the target language

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