Mentorship Program
October 2012 – June 2013

The Mentorship program supports teachers seeking an in-depth experience of observation and reflection within Opal School’s preschool – 5^th grade classrooms. The program allows participants to flexibly design a series of visitations to Opal classrooms in session throughout the school year.  This provides an opportunity for extended exposure to inquiry based approaches to teaching and learning through the arts and sciences.  The program also includes participation in a series of Center workshops, summer symposium and seminars focused on strategies for mentoring colleagues.

Program fee includes:

• Playful Literacy OR Story Workshop: Dec. 5 OR 6, 2012
• Opal School Visitation Days: Jan. 30-31, 2013
• Planning for Playful Inquiry: Feb. 1, 2013
• Summer symposium: Jun. 20 – 22, 2013
• Participant’s choice of one additional Opal School Workshop
• Classroom visitations (dates self-selected by participant)
• Three evening seminars (Dec 5, Feb 1, Jun 21)
• Evening, hands-on arts as languages workshops (taught by Museum Art Educators)
• Environments and organization workshops
• Access to the Opal School blog classroom sites
• 20% discount on additional Opal School Workshops and publications

 

Fee: $1600 (paid in full before Sept 15: $1500)
Undergraduate or graduate credit available through Portland State University
To register contact thecenter@portlandcm.org
Limited to 10 participants