Planning with mentors in a team teaching environment requires us all to rethink what we value and why before we create our contributions to our semester plans. This year has some new dimensions. We have four teams in all. I teach in two of them but am planning for all four. Here's how.
The East End (EE) and Half Hollow Hills (HHH) teams enter their second year in the program. The teaching teams for the EE (of which I am a member) and HHH are constructing their plans in wikis. We are sharing ideas across the EE and HHH wikis, envisioning similarities in ways we never did before. It's quite exciting. Of special note is that students in the two teams are seasoned students in the program. What we hope to accomplish and what they hope to accomplish is already grounded with the work in Year One. Now... we can build leadership into Year Two, asking each Year Two student to lead across all four teams in some ways.
The two new teams are being conceptualized together. One, Monday nights in Herricks, will have 10 team nights. The other, in the Town of Huntington, Tuesday nights, will hold 5 sessions in-person and 5 online. What the teams do, though, will be parallel for the first time. I am a mentor in Herricks but actively planning for and with the mentors in Herricks and those in the Town of Huntington.
So... we move into greater clarity and great unity across all four teams.
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