Short description:

This updated resource helps mentors develop skills for guiding new teachers and offers reflections, discussion prompts, and role plays to promote effective interactions between mentors and beginning teachers.

Long description:

"Mentoring Novice Teachers is thorough, comprehensive, and well thought out. The author provides an important addition to the growing number of publications about mentoring. Its focus is on the content of mentor training and development. Content is conveyed in a constructivist mode through group dialogue, while at the same time allowing for individual reflection."
?Hal Portner, Author, Mentoring New Teachers

Deepen mentors' awareness of effective practices for guiding novice teachers to success!

How do we educate mentors so they are able to successfully work with novice teachers? Mentoring Novice Teachers examines roles in mentoring relationships, presents strategies that foster trust and open communication, and offers practical ideas for addressing the specific needs of novice teachers.

This excellent, updated resource focuses on building the knowledge and skills mentors need to effectively support and guide new teachers as well as better understand the mentoring process. Reflections, discussion prompts, and role plays are incorporated throughout to increase mentors' awareness and promote positive and effective interactions between mentors and beginning teachers. This second edition includes:

• Specific guidelines for facilitating a mentor training workshop
• Expanded coverage of mentoring strategies and processes
• Updated research about effective mentoring and communication
• A stronger focus on mentoring individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences

This unique book blends theory and practice in a format that meets the needs of mentors and facilitates a powerful means of support for novice teachers.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Defining the Mentoring Relationship
What Is a Mentor?
Why We Need Mentors
Why We Need Mentor Training
Why Be a Mentor?
A Personal Vision of Teaching
Roles in Mentoring
2. The Heart of Mentoring: Trust and Open Communication
Building Trust
Open Communication
Building a Mentoring Relationship With an Experienced Colleague
3. Understanding the Needs of the Novice Teacher
Dealing With a Range of Needs
4. Addressing the Novice Teacher?s Specific Needs
The Need for an Action Plan and Resources
The Need for Honesty
What Student Teachers Need
5. The Mentor?s Lens
Viewing Teaching and Learning Through a Lens
6. The Conferencing Cycle
The Pre-Observation Conference
The Observation
The Post-Observation Conference
7. Data-Gathering Techniques and Tools
Qualitative Versus Quantitative Data
Scripting
Proximity Analysis
Verbal Flow
Numeric Data
Video- and Audiotaping
8. Evaluating the Mentoring Experience
Program Evaluation
Evaluation for Personal Growth: Mentors
Evaluation for Personal Growth: The Novice Teacher
Resource A: Mentoring Projects
Project: Novice Teacher Resource Book
Project: Formative Action Plan
Project: Sharing Your Expertise
Project: Reflections
Project: E-Mentoring and Electronic Discussions
Resource B: Role-Plays
Scenarios
Additional Mentor/Mentee Situations
Resource C: How to Use This Text: A Guide for Individuals and Facilitators
Facilitator's Guide to Setting Up a Workshop
Workshop Sessions
Resource D: Web Sites for Mentors
Bibliography
Index