SIEC Mentor Teacher Training (MTT)
The Southern Indiana Education Center is prepared to support teacher leaders who are guiding current and future educators. We offer two robust programs to train mentor teachers: MTT: Via Educere and MTT: Legacy Builders. Each provides extensive and practical guidance for teacher leaders who are currently working as or intend to serve as mentors in the near future.
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The Southern Indiana Education Center is offering a formal mentoring training program called Via Educere beginning July, 2026. The program includes required monthly virtual meetings for mentor teachers throughout the 2026-27 school year, along with on-demand support from an SIEC specialist. A mandatory kick-off meeting at the SIEC office will take place in early July 2026, and a year-end celebration is scheduled for June 2027. The program will utilize “Mentoring in Action: Guiding, Sharing, and Reflecting with Novice Teachers” by Carol Pelletier Radford (2nd edition, Corwin, 2017) and will include the following topics:
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Orientation to the School & Community
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Beginning the School Year Successfully: Creating a Community of Learners
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Teaching for Understanding: Effective Instruction
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Assessment as Feedback
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Communication with Families
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Student Engagement
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Self-Reflection and Wellness
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Active, Inquiry-Based Learning
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Collaborations & Evaluations
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Creating Authentic, Standards-Based Experiences
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Classroom & Behavior Management
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Wrapping Up the First Year and Planning Forward
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The Mentor Teacher Training (MTT) program aims to guide and support experienced teachers in learning effective mentoring strategies through evidence-based and connected experiences. This is done to build an effective, supportive environment for high school students striving to develop artful teaching skills through a Youth Apprenticeship experience.
Goals of the program include:
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Using cycles of inquiry and the dialogic process to share and shape learning.
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Identifying roles and relationships that support the development of apprentice teachers.
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Developing and consistently using co-teaching strategies.
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Developing future teachers who are reflective practitioners, able to critically assess their practice, and are committed to continuous professional learning.
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Cultivating an understanding of the creative possibilities and professional responsibilities of an educator.
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Fostering collaboration and effective communication for all student apprentices.
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Learning and utilizing the practical logistics of serving as a mentor to an apprentice future educator.
