Full Description
Strengthen your mentoring skills to significantly impact a new teacher's career!
A skilled mentor can make a major difference in helping novice teachers succeed and thrive during that all-important first year. This updated edition of the best-selling book, Being an Effective Mentor strengthens practicing mentors' skills with updated strategies to help protégés develop confidence and expertise as teachers.
Educator and mentoring expert Kathleen Feeney Jonson identifies the skills and experiences that nurture beginning teachers and provides specific, research-based techniques for mentors, such as demonstration teaching, positive observation and feedback, informal communication, role modeling, and providing direct assistance. Readers will find guidance for using reflections to promote discovery, an action plan for professional development, and month-by-month mentoring activities for building productive mentor/mentee relationships and promoting best teaching practices.
This second edition demonstrates how to help new instructors improve instructional, interpersonal, and coping skills; examines the components of successful mentoring initiatives; and offers new information on:
The stages of teacher needs and development
Professional growth for long-term teaching success
Assessment of student work
Working with difficult mentees
The role of mentors within teacher induction programs
This straightforward resource helps mentors guide beginning teachers on a rewarding and satisfying path of careerlong development and offers invaluable assistance for administrators who plan to establish a mentoring program or revitalize an existing one.
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I. Setting the Stage for the Teacher-Mentor
1. Passing the Torch
2. Set up for Success
3. Remembering the First Days
4. Beyond Survival
5. Moving Toward Professionalism
Part II. Effective Strategies for the Good Mentor
6. Working as a Partner With the Adult Learner
7. Stages in Teacher Development
8. Practical Strategies for Assisting New Teachers
9. Overcoming Obstacles and Reaping the Rewards
Part III. Putting It All Together
Month-by-Month Mentoring Activities
Year-at-a-Glance Checklist
Appendix A: First-Day Checklist
Appendix B: Mentor-Mentee Action Plans
Appendix C: Supervisory Beliefs Inventory
References
Index
