Description
Be the best mentor you can be with these state-of-the-art strategies! How can you relate all of your teaching experience to a new teacher?
Working from decades of experience, the authors of this guide offer sensible strategies to help mentors help new teachers. The authors synthesize theory and practice to show mentors how to:
- Increase new-teacher support, success, and retention
- Guide teachers in their relationships and classroom strategies
- Improve their own mentoring approach
- Avoid common mentoring pitfalls
Table of Contents
Foreword - Don Rizzi
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Mentoring Process Is a Journey, Not a Destination
1. Choosing the Best Strategies for Supporting New Teachers
2. Supporting New Teachers as They Interact and Collaborate With Students
3. Supporting New Teachers as They Organize Classroom Management and Discipline Policies
4. Supporting New Teachers as They Develop Strategies for Managing Curriculum and Pedagogy
5. Supporting New Teachers as They Develop, Use, and Evaluate Student Assessment Instruments
6. Supporting New Teachers as They Develop Personal Teaching Styles and Time Management Strategies
7. Supporting New Teachers as They Develop a Variety of Strategies for Helping At-Risk and Special Needs Students Succeed
8. Supporting New Teachers as They Develop Strategies for Embracing and Celebrating Diversity
9. Supporting New Teachers As They Develop Strategies for Working With New Technologies
10. Supporting New Teachers as They Develop Positive Relationships With Parents and Community
Index
