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Becoming a High-Performance Mentor

A Guide to Reflection and Action

Ensure a rewarding and productive mentoring experience!

High-performance mentors are not born. Even experienced educators need training in order to provide constructive support to entry-year teachers. James B. Rowley's mentoring framework has been used to successfully train thousands of teachers to acquire the essential behaviors of high-performance mentoring. With more than 20 years' experience in training mentor teachers, Rowley blends real-life stories with established research to help readers:

  • Understand mentoring as a performance continuum
  • Improve assessment, communication, and coaching skills
  • Reflect on the mentoring process and analyze mentoring relationships
  • Utilize mentoring as a pathway to personal and professional growth

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: K-12
  • ISBN: 9781412917674
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2006
  • Page Count: 208
  • Publication date: June 21, 2006

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Description

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"I serve as a mentor principal, but I didn't receive much training in the how to's of being a mentor. I wish I had read this book years ago!"
-Becky Cooke, Principal
Evergreen Elementary, Spokane, WA

"I recommend this book highly to mentor program coordinators who are looking to refine the training and practice of their existing mentors. It goes deeper into the process of mentoring and reflection."
-Audrey Lakin, Teacher Induction and Mentoring Coordinator
Community Unit School District #300, Carpentersville, IL

Ensure a rewarding and productive mentoring experience!

High-performance mentors are not born. Even experienced educators need training in order to provide constructive support to entry-year teachers. James B. Rowley's mentoring framework has been used to successfully train thousands of teachers to acquire the six essential behaviors of high-performance mentoring: committing, accepting, communicating, coaching, learning, and inspiring.

With more than twenty years of experience in training mentor teachers, Rowley blends real-life stories with established research to help readers:

  • Understand mentoring as a performance continuum with escalating developmental stages
  • Improve assessment, communication, and coaching skills
  • Reflect on the mentoring process and analyze mentoring relationships
  • Utilize mentoring as a pathway to personal and professional growth

Designed for experienced and novice mentor teachers, this book will also be an enormously useful resource for mentor program coordinators, trainers, staff developers, and principals who want to assure that participants grow in their teaching practice as a result of the mentoring experience.


Key features

  • Contains questions to stimulate mentor reflection and action at the conclusion of every chapter
  • Explores mentor performance as a continuum from low performing to high performing.
  • Helps to hone the skills and knowledge of experienced mentors
  • Includes a mentor teacher beliefs inventory
Author(s)

Author(s)

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James B. Rowley

James B. Rowley is the James Leary Professor in the School of Education and Allied Professions at the University of Dayton and the executive director of the Institute for Technology-Enhanced Learning.

Over the past 20 years, he has focused his scholarship on the training and support of mentors and beginning teachers and has served as an entry-year program consultant and mentor teacher trainer for over 100 school districts. He is also the co-creator of other multimedia training programs, including Recruiting and Training Successful Substitute Teachers (1998), Becoming a Star Urban Teacher (1995), and Mentoring the New Teacher (1994).

In addition to the multimedia publications listed above, Rowley is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and monographs. He is the author of the Corwin Press book Becoming a High-Performance Mentor: A Guide to Reflection and Action (2006). Rowley has delivered over 200 presentations at professional conferences and has led training programs throughout the United States. In 1993 and 995, he was the recipient of the National Association of Teacher Educator’s annual award for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education. In 1985, he was selected as a national semi-finalist in the NASA’s Teacher in Space program and competed for the chance to be the first private citizen in space. He earned his doctorate in educational policy and leadership from The Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures


Preface


Acknowledgments


About the Author


1. Introduction

Many Right Ways

Depends on What?

A Framework for Reflection and Self-Assessment

2. Mentoring

Low- to High-Performance Mentoring

Quality Mentoring as Quality Conversation

Good Mentoring as Good Teaching

Mentoring as Pathway to Personal Growth

The Development of the Mentoring Relationship

Questions for Reflection on Mentoring

3. Committing

Commitment and Influence

Causes of Low Mentor Commitment

Low Mentee Commitment

Commitment Indicators

Questions for Reflection on Committing

4. Accepting

The Challenge of Acceptance

Relationship of Acceptance and Understanding

Acceptance Indicators

Questions for Reflection on Accepting

5. Communicating

A Conversation Revisited

Developmental Mentoring

Beliefs Influence Practice

The Mentor Teacher Beliefs Inventory

From Theory to Practice

To Guide or Not to Guide

Communication Indicators

Questions for Reflection on Communicating

6. Coaching

Relationship of Mentoring to Coaching

Cognitive Coaching

Coaching for Confidence and Competence

Coaching as Cognitive Apprenticeship

The Role of Observation in Coaching

Coaching Indicators

Questions for Reflection on Coaching

7. Learning

Embracing New Ideas

Open to New Behaviors

Formal and Informal Teacher Learning

A Framework for Teacher Learning

Learning Indicators

Questions for Reflection on Learning

8. Inspiring

Personal Reflections on Inspiration

Inspiration Indicators

Questions for Reflection on Inspiring

References


Index


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