This one-of-a-kind resource walks new teachers and their mentors through a full year of exercises addressing everything from lesson planning to behavior management. Mentoring is one of the fastest-growing areas of teacher development. It is essential to teacher retention in an age of teacher shortages and teacher recruitment. It contains a month-by-month guide for both mentors and new teachers. It includes numerous forms and practical tips for creating effective mentoring meetings for both the new teacher and the student teacher. The book outlines how to identify and discuss difficult issues as mentors and new teachers work together. It also includes essential classroom management and discipline ideas for beginners.
This book provides a roadmap for individual teacher-mentors or those in charge of mentoring programs. Everyone in a position of leadership should read and use this book.
The purpose of this essential text is to provide support for you as you support future teacher development.
Use with Mentoring in Action, the companion guide for mentors!
This book is designed for new teachers to serve as a documentation and reflection of their first year of teaching. The idea for the book came from teacher mentors using the author's book Mentoring in Action.
... the roles and tasks for them, use the title of this section so it is inclusive and addresses principals, assistant or vice principals, deans, and other supervisors of beginning and experienced educators (Brewster & Railsback, 2001).
Tools and topics new to this edition include: Teacher mentor standards based on the NBPTS Core Propositions and validated by members of the International Mentoring Association and other practitioners Classroom observation methods and ...
NEW to this edition - updated coverage of standards - assessment - analyzing student work - cognitive coaching - and more.
Use with Mentoring in Action, the companion guide for mentors!
This field-tested guide provides everything you need to effectively support and mentor your special education teachers, increase their job satisfaction, and keep your retention rates high!
Responsive Mentoring advocates for an approach to mentoring that is teacher-centered, scaffolded, and contextualized to teachers' work.--Gloria McDaniel-Hall, assistant professor, Educational Leadership, National Louis University