CT COLT Networking Fellowship

• Build a language community to offer mentoring
• Offer early-career teachers personalized support in their current assignment and as a foundation for long-term professional growth 
• Create a supportive environment for rich conversations that lead to improvements in teaching and learning
• Create authentic, real-life experience with passionate experts in the field 
• Build professional networks and to offer networking events

Please follow the links below to apply for the 2022-2023 school year. Applications are due by September 23.

Mentors: click here to apply.

Mentees: click here to apply.

• To be considered a mentor, you need to have at least eight years of experience in the classroom and be actively working in language education.

• To be considered a mentee, you need to be currently teaching with fewer than five years of experience.

• A certificate of participation
• Acknowledgement at the CT COLT Fall Conference in 2021 and in email to all members
• Leadership experience as a mentor working with new world language educators
• Collaboration with a community of educators committed to enhancing world language instruction
• Opportunities to work closely with world languages leaders around the state and across the country
• Free one year membership to CT COLT
• Discounted rate for our Fall Conference (October 20)

• A certificate of participation
• Acknowledgement at the CT COLT Fall Conference in 2021 and in email to all members
• Support, advice, coaching, and motivation from an experienced world language educator
• Collaboration with a community of educators committed to enhancing world language instruction
• Opportunities to work closely with world languages leaders around the state and across the country
• Free one year membership to CT COLT
• Discounted rate for our Hybrid Fall Conference (October 20)

• Participate in meetings.
• Document regular conversations between mentor and mentee to help provide feedback to program coordinators on professional development needs.
• Share professional development opportunities and learning.
• Mentors are responsible for conveying and upholding the standards, norms, and values of the profession.
• Mentors are responsible for establishing and maintaining a level of trust and confidentiality that enables the mentees to speak freely about the problems they are facing, their frustrations and challenges without fear that others will learn about them.
• Mentors nurture the talents and abilities of the mentees offering support, challenge, patience and enthusiasm while guiding them to new levels of competence.
• Mentors are proactive sharing resources, articles, research, and professional development opportunities etc. that are beneficial for the mentee.
• Mentors are leaders sharing their personal experiences, knowledge and skills while at the same time listening to the thoughts and experiences of the mentee.
• Mentees will communicate openly and regularly with their mentor regarding their professional learning needs and day-to-day challenges.
• Mentors and mentees will respond to communications from each other in a timely manner.

Trudy Anderson
Spanish Teacher, Nathan Hale School, New Haven, CT
trudycamand@gmail.com

Sara Hall
CT COLT Teacher Leadership Coordinator
Spanish Teacher, Torrington Middle School, Torrington, CT
halls@ctcolt.org