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Being Mentored

A Guide for Proteges

Take responsibility for your own learning by learning from others.

As a new teacher, you need help! This book reveals the unique skills necessary to interpret and put to use the guidance, wisdom, instruction, and assistance of a mentor and become a self-empowered proactive protégé. Thought-provoking and action-generating discussions make this book a wonderful resource in the preparation of prospective teachers. A step-by-step approach illustrates the unique perspective of receiving mentorship, and how to make the most of it. Topics discussed include:

  • Building trust and clarifying communication
  • Identifying who does what
  • Learning from watching
  • Deciding where to focus your efforts
  • Planning your professional growth

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9780761945536
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2002
  • Page Count: 96
  • Publication date: June 05, 2002

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"This is the best book on how to ask for help and search out opportunities if you want to be an effective teacher."
Harry K. Wong, Author
The First Days of School: How to Be An Effective Teacher

Take responsibility for your own learning by learning from others.

As a new teacher, you need help! The inspiration and encouragement which mentorship provides is crucial during the first (and toughest) months of teaching. This book gives you all you need to fully recognize and utilize the valuable rewards uncovered throughout the mentoring process.

Thought-provoking and action-generating discussions reveal how to become a proactive protégé, making this book a wonderful resource in the preparation of prospective teachers. A step-by-step approach illustrates the unique perspective of receiving mentorship, and how to make the most of it. Topics discussed include:

  • Building trust and clarifying communication
  • Identifying who does what
  • Learning from watching
  • Deciding where to focus your efforts
  • Planning your professional growth

Before you can profit from experience, you must acquire it. This book reveals the unique skills necessary to interpret and put to use the guidance, wisdom, instruction, and assistance of a mentor and become a self-empowered, proactive protégé.


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    Author(s)

    Author(s)

    Hal Portner

    Hal Portner is a former K-12 teacher and administrator. He was assistant director of the Summer Math Program for High School Women and Their Teachers at Mount Holyoke College, and for 24 years he was a teacher and then administrator in two Connecticut public school districts. From 1985 to 1995, he was a member of the Connecticut State Department of Education’s Bureau of Certification and Professional Development, where, among other responsibilities, he served as coordinator of the Connecticut Institute for Teaching and Learning and worked closely with school districts to develop and carry out professional development and teacher evaluation plans and programs. Hal developed and teaches for Western New England University a 3 credit MEd in Curriculum and Instruction online core course in Mentoring, Coaching, and professional development.

    Portner writes, develops materials, trains mentors, facilitates the development of new teacher and peer-mentoring programs, and consults for school districts and other educational organizations and institutions. In addition to Mentoring New Teachers, he is the author of Training Mentors Is Not Enough: Everything Else Schools and Districts Need to Do (2001), Being Mentored: A Guide for Protégés (2002), Workshops that Really Work: The ABCs of Designing and Delivering Sensational Presentations (2005), and editor of Teacher Mentoring and Induction: The State of the Art and Beyond (2005) – all published by Corwin Press. He holds an MEd from the University of Michigan and a 6th-year Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study (CAGS) in education admin­istration from the University of Connecticut. For three years, he was with the University of Massachusetts EdD Educational Leadership Program.

    Table of Contents

    Table of Contents

    Preface

    Acknowledgments

    About the Author

    Introduction

    1. Participate

    Take the Initiative

    Developing the Relationship Takes Time

    Earn and Keep Your Mentor's Trust

    Clarify Communication

    2. Take Responsibility

    Don't Wait, Instigate

    Feedback and How to Receive It

    When to Give Feedback

    Mismatched Mentoring Relationships

    Responsibility to Yourself

    Responsibility to Others

    Get to Know Your Principal

    Clarify Ground Rules Early

    3. Observe

    Be an Objective Observer

    What to Observe

    Expand Your View

    Don't Imitate, Create

    4. Ask

    Whom to Ask

    Where to Ask

    How to Ask

    What to Ask For

    Why Ask?

    5. Chart Your Course

    Find Out What You Don't Know

    Set Priorities

    Identify Resources

    The Power of Planning

    6. Network

    Support From Collegial Groups

    Guidelines for Support and Discussion Groups

    Networking on the Internet

    Working With College and University Professors and Cohorts

    7. Take Informed Risks

    Look Before You Leap

    Should You or Shouldn't You?

    Help the Risk Succeed

    Risk With Conviction

    8. Reflect

    Keep a Professional Learning Journal

    Guided Reflection

    Focused Reflection

    9. Give Back

    Leave a Legacy

    Be a Change Agent

    Experienced Newcomers

    The Gift of Renewal

    Resource A: Internet Sites and Publications for New Teachers

    Resource B: Professional Education Organizations and Their Web Pages

    Resource C: Chatboard Exchange on the Internet

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