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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.
Putting it All Together
Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them … and they flew.
There is little doubt that ongoing, meaningful contact between mentors and new teachers reinforces and fosters professional development. The following pages contain a month-by-month calendar of activities designed to promote interaction between these teachers. Activities are selected for each month to correspond with typical events occurring during a school year. Note that this calendar is set up on a traditional schedule, with teachers starting their work of planning in August and beginning in the classroom in September. Adjustments may need to be made for districts where the schedule is year-round or differs ...
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