Mentor Teachers
Mentor Teachers and Counseling Site Supervisors at George Mason (Prospective and Current)
Welcome to Mason! Mentor Teachers and Counseling Site Supervisors serve as role models and collaborators for teacher and counseling candidates and are critical supports in guiding students to enhance their planning, instruction, and content knowledge. Mentor teachers and Site Supervisors work in collaboration with University Supervisors and George Mason program faculty to help ensure the success of their candidate.
Qualifications
MTs and School Counseling Site Supervisors must have a minimum of three years teaching/counseling 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 mentor teachers, as well as counseling (Clinical Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling) site supervisors according to the length and time of the practicum/internship.
Please use the appropriate digital link below to submit your honorarium request:
- For Teacher Candidate Mentor Teachers: Mentor Teacher Honorarium Request
- For Counseling (Clinical Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling) Site Supervisors: Site Supervisor Honorarium Request
Important: Please submit your honorarium request within the first week of the practicum/internship. Please do NOT wait until the end of the semester. Our processes have changed.
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/site supervisors who have a Mason G number will be issued a check with the name that is in Mason’s system.
If any of the following information has changed since you last worked with GMU, someone from the Office of Teacher Preparation will reach back out with any additional steps related to 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 but may be required later in the process if there are updates to your information or GMU record.
If you have any questions, please contact Amanda Davis at adavi3@gmu.edu. In the subject line of your email, please type "honorarium". In the body of the email, please state the name of the GMU student you supervised/mentored, as well as the semester you mentored them.
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