Teachers Mentoring Teachers : a Practical Approach to Helping New and Experienced Staff.

Teachers Mentoring Teachers : a Practical Approach to Helping New and Experienced Staff.

This highly interactive guide offers a step-by-step method for planning, implementing, and evaluating mentor programs to maximize teacher satisfaction and productivity.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daresh, John C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2002.
Subjects:
Mentoring in education.
Mentoring in education
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dedication
  • About the Author
  • Chapter 1
  • Mentoring: A Welcome Teaching Assistant
  • Why Start a Mentoring Program?
  • Benefits to Mentors
  • Benefits to Protégés
  • Benefits to Districts
  • Potential Problems with Mentoring
  • Summarizing the Chapter
  • Chapter 2
  • Initial Program Development
  • Planning a Program: A Typical Case
  • Mentoring Planning Team: Setting the Stage
  • Implementation: Putting it all Together
  • Appraisal: How Did it Work?
  • Summarizing the Chapter
  • Chapter 3
  • What is Our Purpose?
  • Decide the Target Groups
  • Two Cases
  • Identifying a Purpose
  • Checking Your Plan
  • Summarizing the Chapter
  • Chapter 4
  • Who is a Mentor?
  • Characteristics of Mentors: One Case
  • Characteristics of Mentors: A Second Case
  • Are Good Teachers Always Good Mentors?
  • What are Some Characteristics of Effective Mentors?
  • Danger Signals
  • Responsibilities of Mentors
  • Checking Your Plan
  • Summarizing the Chapter
  • Chapter 5
  • Preparing People to Serve as Mentors
  • Domain 1: Orientation to Mentoring
  • Domain 2: Effective Planning and Managing of Instruction
  • Domain 3: Human Relations Skills
  • Domain 4: Mentor Process Skills
  • Domain 5: Local Implementation Issues
  • Checking Your Plan
  • Summarizing the Chapter
  • Chapter 6
  • Matching Mentors and Protégés
  • A Case of a Bad Match
  • Mentor Matching: Some Myths
  • So What Should You Use?
  • Some Additional thoughts
  • Checking Your Plan
  • Summarizing the Chapter
  • Chapter 7
  • What Do Mentors Do?
  • A Case in Point
  • Additional Responsibilities of Mentors
  • Developing an Action Plan
  • Checking Your Plan
  • Summarizing the Chapter
  • Chapter 8
  • Mentoring for Beginning Teachers
  • Beginning Teachers' Needs
  • A Case Study
  • How Could Mentoring Help?
  • Summarizing the Chapter
  • References
  • Chapter 9
  • Mentoring for Veterans.
  • Mentoring for Veterans: Two Cases
  • Mentoring for Experienced Transfers
  • Mentoring for Veterans within a System
  • Checking Your Plan
  • Summarizing the Chapter
  • Chapter 10
  • Did the Mentoring Program Work?
  • Evaluation Questions
  • Checking Your Plan
  • Summarizing the Chapter
  • Chapter 11
  • Moving beyond Starting Your Mentoring Program
  • How Does Professional Development Fit?
  • Reviewing Local Priorities
  • What Happens after Mentoring?
  • Checking Your Plan
  • Summarizing the Chapter
  • Appendix A: Answers to the Mentoring Background Quiz in Chapter 1
  • Appendix B: Mentor-Protégé Action Planning Form
  • Suggested Readings
  • Index.

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