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Cooperating teachers and field supervisors of student teachers are required by State law to complete mentor training within the first three weeks of the student teachers' placements.

Instructions

Select “Begin” to start the first of 15 sections when you enter the site. 

  • Advance from section to section by simply clicking the panel at the bottom or top of the page depending on which direction you want to move.
  • In order to receive a completion on the training, you must submit responses to the reflective questions located at the end of sections 1 (Vision for Coaching), 3 (CT Roles), 11 (Observations), 12 (Post-Conferences), and 14 (Attending to the 3 Cs). The section 1 reflective questions can be found after the Longhorn Creed.  Once you have entered your responses to the reflective questions in a particular section, please be sure to use the submit button before advancing to the next section.  If you do not use the submit button, your responses will not be saved.
  • If you leave and re-enter the site before finishing the training, the navigation panel starts back at 0% completion.  Just start back where you left off. There’s no need to re-submit responses to reflective questions already submitted.
  • ***Important*** Please allow us time to manually check in your 5 sets of responses to the reflective questions.  Expect to receive a reply from us (usually within the same day) with your completion notification between the hours of 8 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday.
  • This training will take approximately 90 minutes.
In order to receive credit for this requirement, please visit our  Cooperating Teacher Training site.  

*New* Navigating through the Interactive Graphics

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While going through each section, use the “Go Back” orange button to return to the interactive graphic in section 9.  Once you have completed all of these sections, use the panel at the bottom of the page to advance to section 14.

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If you have any questions regarding the Mentor Training requirementCooperating Teacher training, please email Jenny.carney@austin.utexas.edu .