CSULB's mentor teaching program gets boost from SchoolsFirst FCU donation
Reinaldo Caceres has been on both sides of the Cal State Long Beach’s student teacher mentoring program. 在The Beach获得教学证书的同时，他还与一位导师一起工作, and as a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, has mentored aspiring Beach student teachers.
他说，指导对被徒弟和导师来说都是有益的经历. 上学期, he mentored Claudia Soto ’23, 去年是谁, was hired by Narbonne High School in Harbor City to teach Spanish.
“一开始看到她的兴奋，到最后看到她改变了多少，这是一次很棒的经历,” said Caceres ’97, ’04, also a teacher and coach at Narbonne High.
“代课老师一开始很紧张，但随着学期的进行，他们变得更自在了.”
It can be nerve-wracking to have a mentor looking over your shoulder, 但最后, student teachers use their guidance to learn to how to handle a classroom, create lesson plans and gain confidence. 卡塞雷斯说，很多学生的教学都是试错的过程，导师可以帮助他们避免课堂上的许多失误.
“他们需要学习的最重要的事情是如何管理自己的时间，以及如何与学生相处,卡塞雷斯说.
The donation from SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union supports in-person mentor teacher institutes within the College of 教育. 最近, CED administrators earmarked the funds for online activities, 包括资助导师完成在线校准培训工具，以支持实习教师, who are earning their Multiple Subject Credential, evaluation tools and an online mentor teacher orientation.
“These mentors work with our students all day, every day for the entirety of a semester, 我们知道，我们要求他们完成的任务远远大于基金提供的津贴,” said Lisa Isbell, coordinator of the Multiple Subject Credential Program (MSCP) at The Beach.
Through donations, 海滩可以继续吸引和支持最聪明、最有成就的学生，让他们变得令人惊叹，让他们的简历受到尊敬, which is one of the priorities of the comprehensive lovesport爱博体育 fundraising campaign.
Student teaching comes at the end of their academic programs, taking what they learned from the faculty into K-12 classrooms.
“如果没有与我们地区和导师的合作，我们就无法做到我们所做的，因为他们才是每天指导这些新教师的人, giving them the feedback, giving them the support, giving them the opportunities to actually work with their students,伊斯贝尔说.
安娜·奥尔蒂斯, dean of the College of 教育, 她表示，与Schools First FCU的合作对导师/督导项目至关重要. The credit union has donated to The Beach the past 10 years, 让实习教师对国家经济产生不可磨灭的影响, 社会, education and scientific workforce, 这是CSULB全面无障碍筹款活动的优先事项之一.
“他们的支持有助于我们与主管和导师取得联系，并找到新的途径为他们提供专业发展,奥尔蒂斯说.
“我认为人们没有意识到的一件事是，实习教师在他们的学生教学学期面临着巨大的经济困难, or semesters depending on what program they are in. They can't have a day job, 很明显, 因为他们整天都在学校，所以他们不能做传统的兼职工作，而很多大学生可能会做兼职工作，因为他们在做预科.”
奥尔蒂斯补充说，一些学生面临的经济负担可能会阻止他们进入这个行业. 学校第一基金先前提供的资助，减轻了他们取得教师资格证书的部分费用.
“We are proud to support this innovative and impactful program,” said Josh Smith, 第一学校联邦信用合作社负责学校和社区关系的副总裁. “我们的礼物是为了表彰教师导师的奉献精神和专业知识，他们为未来教育工作者的成功做出了贡献，我们也一直致力于支持和服务所有学校员工.”
伊斯贝尔估计，这三个证书项目每年大约有500名学生教师毕业. She said that by the time these student teachers leave, they are well prepared to face the challenges of today’s classrooms.
“With the help the mentors, 我们的老师很受欢迎，因为他们一旦毕业, they are ready to go out into the world and teach on their own,”她说。.
