Being an Effective Mentor: How to Help Beginning Teachers Succeed

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 prot g s 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 developmentProfessional growth for long-term teaching successAssessment of student workWorking with difficult menteesThe 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412940621
• ISBN13: 9781412940627
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"

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Comes from an educator and mentoring expert who identifies the skills that nurture beginning teacher

Kathleen Feeney Jonson's second edition of BEING AN EFFECTIVE MENTOR: HOW TO HELP BEGINNING TEACHERS SUCCEED comes from an educator and mentoring expert who identifies the skills that nurture beginning teachers, providing techniques for mentors which use feedback, role modeling, and a combination of teacher methods and assessment options. From establishing a new career path as a mentor to revitalizing an existing one, this covers many basics and is a fine survey for any college-level education collection.