Grow-Your-Own (GYO) Teacher Education programs that aim to diversify and strengthen the teacher workforce must provide high-quality learning experiences that support the success and retention of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) teacher candidates and bilingual teacher candidates. Such work requires a holistic and systematic approach to conceptualizing instruction and mentoring that is both linguistically and culturally sustaining. To guide this work in the Master of Arts in Teaching in Clinically Based Elementary program at Oregon State University’s College of Education, we conducted a review of relevant literature and frameworks related to linguistically responsive and/or sustaining teaching or mentoring practices. We developed a set of ten mentoring competencies for school-based cooperating/clinical teachers and university supervisors. They are grouped into the domains of: Facilitating Linguistically and Culturally Sustaining Instruction, Engaging with Mentees, Recognizing and Interrupting Inequitable Practices and Policies, and Advocating for Equity. We also developed a set of twelve instructional competencies for teacher candidates as well as the university instructors who teach them. The instructional competencies are grouped into the domains of: Engaging in Self-reflection and Taking Action, Learning About Students and Re-visioning Instruction, Creating Community, and Facilitating Language and Literacy Development in Context. We are currently operationalizing these competencies to develop and conduct surveys and focus groups with various GYO stakeholders for the purposes of ongoing program evaluation and improvement, as well as further refinement of these competencies.
Katharine and Orville Wright sitting in Wright Model H Flyer, created 1914. Used courtesy of Special Collections and Archives, Wright Brothers Collection, Wright State University Libraries. https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms1_photographs/ 1088/ Description. Katharine Wright, wearing flying goggles, and Orville Wright sitting in a Wright Model H Flyer. Note on back, "Note vertical radiator made out of speaking tubes. Also note brake against wheel." i
These surveys were developed from the Key Competencies in Linguistically and
Culturally Sustaining Mentoring and Instruction for Clinically-based Grow-Your-Own
Teacher Education Programs (Kibler et al., 2021:
https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/defaults/j9602713n). They are designed for
use in teacher education programs for purposes of assessing program strengths and needs
and improving program quality.
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