Mentor Teachers
Mentor Teachers at George Mason (Prospective and Current)
Welcome to Mason! Mentor Teachers serve as role models and collaborators for teacher candidate and are critical supports in guiding teacher candidates to enhance their planning, instruction, and content knowledge. Mentor teachers work with both traditional internship candidates and on-the-job (OTJ) candidates in collaboration with university supervisors and George Mason program faculty to help ensure the success of their teacher candidate.
Qualifications
MTs must have a minimum of three years teaching experience and be fully licensed in the candidate’s endorsement area. Provisional licenses do not qualify. This is a VDOE requirement for internships.
Honorarium
The Office of Teacher Preparation provides a small honorarium to mentor teachers as appreciation of their service. Honorariums are granted to MTs according to the length of the internship.
Mentor teachers are required to submit the digital Mentor Teacher Honorarium Form no later than 30 days after the last day of internship in order to receive their honorarium. If mentoring the same GMU student for more than one semester, please submit a request at the end of each semester.
Fall Semester - submit by the first week in December
Spring Semester - submit by the first week in May
Honorarium payment takes a minimum of four to six weeks to be processed after the semester is completed and your forms are received. Please note, mentor teachers who have a Mason G number will be issued a check with the name that is in Mason’s system. Checks are delivered via US mail using the address on your forms.
If any of the following information has changed since you last worked with us, CEHD's finance department will reach back out with any additional steps: change of address, change of name, or an inactive G#. Please note: the W-9 Form is no longer requested in order to submit an honorarium request.
If you have any questions, please contact CEHD Finance at cehdfin@gmu.edu. In the subject line of your email, please type "Mentor Teacher" plus the semester and year you supervised a Mason intern.
Additional Resources for Mentor Teachers
Below are links to the School of Education’s Licensure Internship Manual where additional information on mentor teacher roles and responsibilities, as well as program specific manuals, are linked.
- Internship Manual (for students, mentor teachers and university supervisors)
- Supplemental Support Resources for New Teachers and Mentor Teachers from VDOE