Full Description
Responsive Mentoring: Supporting the Teachers All Students Deserve advocates for a collaborative approach to mentoring that is teacher-centered, scaffolded, and contextualized to teachers' work. This approach is designed to help teachers across their careers set and meet ambitious instructional goals, while also developing as reflective practitioners who learn in and from their teaching, in order to ensure all students receive a rigorous and engaging educational experience.
Mentoring is a highly complex and critical endeavor. To guide mentors' work, a clear vision for mentoring is coupled with a highly-responsive set of mentoring practices. Recommendations and real world examples help mentors make informed decisions about which practices to use, under what circumstances, and in what combinations, in order to responsively and effectively facilitate teacher learning and development. Concrete and practical advice along with questions for reflection and action help mentors across contexts and levels of experience. A final section outlining intentional and versatile strategies for mentoring-the-mentor ensures that all mentors also have supports to grow as professionals.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Foundations of Effective Mentoring
Chapter 1: Educative Mentoring: A Fundamental Shift in Mentoring
Chapter 2: Trust: The Cornerstone for Educative Mentoring
Chapter 3: Goal Setting and Collecting Useful Data Within the Mentoring Cycle
Part II: Mentoring Practices
Chapter 4: Debriefing Sessions: The Heart of Mentoring
Chapter 5: Brief Interactions: Making the Most of a Few Minutes
Chapter 6: Co-Planning and Resource Supports: Helping Fill in the Gaps
Chapter 7: Video Analysis: Visual Support for Teacher Growth
Chapter 8: Collegial Visits: Learning from Peers
Chapter 9: Demonstrations & Rehearsal: Ensuring Teachers Feel Ready to Teach
Chapter 10: Stepping into the Action to Provide "Real-Time" Support
Chapter 11: Demonstration Teaching: Contextualized Mentor Modeling
Chapter 12: Co-teaching: Sharing the Risk and Responsibility for Ambitious Teaching
Part III: Mentoring The Mentor
Chapter 13: Mentoring the Mentors
Chapter 14: Video Analysis: A Visual Support for Mentor Growth
Chapter 15: It Takes Two (or More): Co-Mentoring For Improved Practice
Chapter 16: Mentor Development Sessions: Learning With and From Team Leaders
Afterword: Final Thoughts As You Move Forward with Educative Mentoring
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
