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Mentoring Observation Form - Golden Apple Scholars

The attached Golden Apple Mentoring Observation Form is used by Golden Apple teachers in helping guide first year Teaching Scholars.  Together the mentor and the beginning teacher reflect and discuss the craft of teaching.  Administrators, mentors, beginning teachers, and pre-service teachers may find the observation form to be a useful tool to reflect on the implementation of best practices in the classroom.  The form was inspired and based on the work of  many researchers and practitioners dedicated to improving the process of mentoring.  If you are interested in learning more about the Golden Apple Scholars of Illinois program please click here.

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Carolyn Cyriaque, Scholars Program Assistant Director: Mentoring, is a 1996 Golden Apple Fellow who became a full time staff member in 1999. She supervises the mentoring program for teaching Scholars and organizes the instructional sites for Summer Institute. Carolyn worked for over thirty years in Chicago Public Schools, most recently at Coles Model for ExcellenceElementary School.  She received her BA from UIC and both of her MA’s from ChicagoState. Currently, she also serves as an adjunct professor at DePaulUniversity.

Jozel Shwatal, Scholars Program Associate Director: Mentoring, was named a Golden Apple Scholar in 1994. After completing her five-year commitment to Golden Apple as a social studies instructor at SchurzHigh School in Chicago, she joined the Scholars program in 2005 to assist in mentoring Teaching Scholars and in recruitment activities. She received her BS in secondary education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her masters in Teaching and Leadership from St.XavierUniversity.

James R. Sorensen, Director of Golden Apple Scholars, is a 1999 Golden Apple Fellow who became a full time staff member in June 2006.  He has taught language arts, literacy, social studies, and science for thirty-four years at ChippewaMiddle School in Des PlainesElementarySchool District #62.  The Illinois State Board of Education commended him with a Those Who Excel Award of Merit in 1992, and the North Suburban Library Association named him Community Advocate of the Year in 2003 for his service projects bringing children into the library.  He received his BA from NIU and his MA from Concordia.