Community of Practice Week 2 Facilitation Guide

Community of Practice


Week 2
Facilitation Guide

Dear RPMs,

Last week was awesome!! Thank you for all your hard work. I loved seeing how you all made the materials your own to reach the needs of your individual cascade CoPs. I think the Mentees were really happy with the cascade session, too.

As you start planning for this week, here are a few tips for Week 2:

Teaching Tips:

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  PowerPoints are visual aids. Make sure you read the lesson plans so you give the Mentees all the information they need--not everything is on the ppt.
  
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  Continue to modify and adapt the lessons. If you have a small group, you may need to add more activities. If you have a large group, you may need to adapt the activities to make them shorter. Do activities you think are interesting and engaging for your Mentees.
  
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  Make sure you include the Building Routines criteria from the CoP Observation Rubric in your sessions. These are the criteria Mentees will use in their observations.
  
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  Write all the activities you do in your sessions on the board and ask how Mentees can use them in their classrooms. You can use the Activity Tracker for that.
  

How can you motivate your Mentees to attend sessions? Here are some ideas for Week 2.

Mentee Motivation:

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  Ask Mentees who attended last week to encourage those who didn’t attend the session to come this week.
  
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  Send motivational memes or quotes to the Mentees in your Telegram groups.
  
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  Share your own experiences in ESN with the Mentees. What benefits have you gotten from ESN?
  
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  Let the Mentees give input and share their ideas and activities with the group.
  
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  End each session on a high note, like a Mingle activity, so that it is the last thing Mentees remember about the day.
  

What other ideas do you have to motivate Mentees? Please share them with us.

I hope you all have a fabulous Week 2!

Sincerely,

Your Coach