We value the generosity, advocacy, and professional expertise of each cooperating professional and work to support you through orientation, training, and university supervisor support. While our programs offer training, we also want to make you aware of one of our partners, the Oregon Preservice Education Network (OPEN) 2024-25 trainings.  This group is made up of members of the ODE mentor teacher program, multiple school districts, higher education institutions and TSPC, and together they collaborated to create and facilitate coaching/mentoring skill building trainings. As a participating partner, we invite new and returning mentors to register for one of OPEN’s virtual training sessions.

Each orientation training is collaboratively facilitated by member K-12 district representatives and university EPP partners, sharing helpful ideas for welcoming your candidates and supporting them in becoming the best educators as possible for our K-12 students. Trainings are designed to provide Cooperating Educators with well-grounded tools and tips for mentoring their future educators with a culturally responsive lens.

2023-2024 Cooperating Educator Orientation Schedule

• Winter Session 1: Thursday, January 30, 2025, 4:30 – 7 pm Pacific Time, via Zoom
• Winter Session 2: Thursday, February 6, 2025, 4:30 – 7 pm Pacific Time, via Zoom

RSVP for your choice of session here: RSVP OPEN Session 24-25 (a Zoom/Google Meet link will be emailed to you prior to the session only if you RSVP).

Training Goals:

1. Deepen skills in building relationships between cooperating educators and educator candidates
2. Enhance strategies to engage in and share the thinking process regarding teaching and learning
3. Build repertoire of coaching/mentoring skills to work with an educator candidate
4. Reflect on being a culturally responsive mentor as well as the dynamics identity and power may hold within the mentor/mentee relationship