Beschreibung:
This book is a call to education officials and professionals to address the need to provide ongoing mentoring for all teachers, especially veteran teachers, who are often overlooked.
This book address a major gap in the current mentoring programs at the secondary level. Staff development resources are often concentrated on helping new teachers be successful in their early school experience. Yes, a good idea, but a limited vision. Meanwhile many veteran teachers go without the mentoring assistance they need to be effective classroom teachers. While a few become mentors themselves, many veteran teachers just settle, slowly giving up, and become at risk of failure, burnout, and thinking only of retirement. This book is a call to school superintendents, building administrators, department chairs, school board members, union leaders, parent leaders, and teacher educators to address the need to provide ongoing mentoring for all teachers.
Chapter 1 1 The Pressing Need for Administrators to Take on a Mentoring Role
Chapter 2 2 A Vision of the Competent Master Teacher
Chapter 3 3 Characteristics of the Effective Mentor
Chapter 4 4 How Administrators Can Assess Their Mentoring Skills
Chapter 5 5 Selecting and Training the Mentoring Team
Chapter 6 6 The Mentoring Team in Action
Chapter 7 7 Utilizing Mentoring to Jump Start the No Teacher Left Behind Era
Chapter 8 8 Utilizing Mentoring to Provide a Second Act for Veteran Teachers
Chapter 9 9 Serving as a Mentor without a Formal Mentoring Program
Chapter 10 10 Making the Case for a Whole-School Mentoring Program