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Mentoring New Teachers, Updated Edition

Item # 066

By Hal Portner

With updated resources, Portner has contemporized his classic guide to teacher mentoring. This book includes step-by-step instructions that offer experienced teachers information for becoming just as skilled at mentoring as they are at teaching. They'll find out how to inspire their new colleagues, encourage them through the first (and toughest) months of teaching, and help them become better teachers.

Portner shows your teacher mentors how to:

Relate to their protégés in ways that establish good working rapport
Assess how the mentoring is progressing and make necessary adjustments
Coach protégés to help them continually improve their performance
Guide protégés from dependence on their mentors to self-reliance as effective teachers
The book includes specific activities and exercises to teach mentors behaviors that elicit trust, help them become more effective at the mentoring process, and methods for boosting protégés' day-to-day effectiveness in the classroom.
Designed for school leaders, teacher mentors, prospective mentors, staff developers, and any educator interested in the professional development of new teachers.

(Corwin Press, 2002)