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Mentoring Novice Teachers

Fostering a Dialogue Process

Second Edition
By: Debra Eckerman Pitton

Deepen mentors' awareness of effective practices for guiding novice teachers to success!

This excellent, updated resource focuses on building the knowledge and skills mentors need to effectively support and guide new teachers as well as better understand the mentoring process. Reflections, discussion prompts, and role-plays are incorporated throughout to increase mentors' awareness and promote positive and effective interactions between mentors and beginning teachers. This second edition includes:

Guidelines for facilitating mentor training workshops
Mentoring strategies and processes
Updated research about effective mentoring and communication
A stronger focus on mentoring individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412936712
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 184
Publication date: June 27, 2006

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"Mentoring Novice Teachers is thorough, comprehensive, and well thought out. The author provides an important addition to the growing number of publications about mentoring. Its focus is on the content of mentor training and development. Content is conveyed in a constructivist mode through group dialogue, while at the same time allowing for individual reflection."
—Hal Portner, Author, Mentoring New Teachers

Deepen mentors' awareness of effective practices for guiding novice teachers to success!

How do we educate mentors so they are able to successfully work with novice teachers? Mentoring Novice Teachers examines roles in mentoring relationships, presents strategies that foster trust and open communication, and offers practical ideas for addressing the specific needs of novice teachers.

This excellent, updated resource focuses on building the knowledge and skills mentors need to effectively support and guide new teachers as well as better understand the mentoring process. Reflections, discussion prompts, and role plays are incorporated throughout to increase mentors' awareness and promote positive and effective interactions between mentors and beginning teachers. This second edition includes:

Specific guidelines for facilitating a mentor training workshop
Expanded coverage of mentoring strategies and processes
Updated research about effective mentoring and communication
A stronger focus on mentoring individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences

This unique book blends theory and practice in a format that meets the needs of mentors and facilitates a powerful means of support for novice teachers.

Author(s)

Debra Eckerman Pitton

Debra Eckerman Pitton is an Associate Professor of Education at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN, where she teaches middle school and secondary methods courses, and supervises student teachers. In addition, she conducts mentor training workshops for school districts across the country, and regularly presents at conferences. She has taught language arts at the middle school and high school levels, and interpersonal and group communication at the community college level. She has also served as assistant superintendent for curriculum and learning.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. Defining the Mentoring Relationship

What Is a Mentor?

Why We Need Mentors

Why We Need Mentor Training

Why Be a Mentor?

A Personal Vision of Teaching

Roles in Mentoring

2. The Heart of Mentoring: Trust and Open Communication

Building Trust

Open Communication

Building a Mentoring Relationship With an Experienced Colleague

3. Understanding the Needs of the Novice Teacher

Dealing With a Range of Needs

4. Addressing the Novice Teacher’s Specific Needs

The Need for an Action Plan and Resources

The Need for Honesty

What Student Teachers Need

5. The Mentor’s Lens

Viewing Teaching and Learning Through a Lens

6. The Conferencing Cycle

The Pre-Observation Conference

The Observation

The Post-Observation Conference

7. Data-Gathering Techniques and Tools

Qualitative Versus Quantitative Data

Scripting

Proximity Analysis

Verbal Flow

Numeric Data

Video- and Audiotaping

8. Evaluating the Mentoring Experience

Program Evaluation

Evaluation for Personal Growth: Mentors

Evaluation for Personal Growth: The Novice Teacher

Resource A: Mentoring Projects

Project: Novice Teacher Resource Book

Project: Formative Action Plan

Project: Sharing Your Expertise

Project: Reflections

Project: E-Mentoring and Electronic Discussions

Resource B: Role-Plays

Scenarios

Additional Mentor/Mentee Situations

Resource C: How to Use This Text: A Guide for Individuals and Facilitators

Facilitator's Guide to Setting Up a Workshop

Workshop Sessions

Resource D: Web Sites for Mentors

Bibliography

Index

Reviews

"Thorough, comprehensive, and well thought-out. The author provides an important addition to the growing number of publications about mentoring, focusing on the content of mentor training and development. I like the way content is conveyed in a constructivist mode through the means of group dialogue, while at the same time allowing for individual reflection."

Hal Portner, Educational Consultant
Author, Mentoring New Teachers

"This practical and comprehensive guide to the complex work of new teacher mentoring is a real contribution to the field."

Charlotte Danielson, Educational Consultant

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