Being an Effective Mentor: How to Help Beginning Teachers Succeed - Hardcover

Jonson, Kathleen Feeney

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1412940613 ISBN 13: 9781412940610

Verlag: Corwin, 2008

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Strengthen your mentoring skills to significantly impact a new teacher¿s career!

A skilled mentor can make a major difference in helping novice teachers succeed and thrive during that all-important first year. This updated edition of the best-selling book, Being an Effective Mentor strengthens practicing mentors¿ skills with updated strategies to help protégés develop confidence and expertise as teachers.

Educator and mentoring expert Kathleen Feeney Jonson identifies the skills and experiences that nurture beginning teachers and provides specific, research-based techniques for mentors, such as demonstration teaching, positive observation and feedback, informal communication, role modeling, and providing direct assistance. Readers will find guidance for using reflections to promote discovery, an action plan for professional development, and month-by-month mentoring activities for building productive mentor/mentee relationships and promoting best teaching practices.

This second edition demonstrates how to help new instructors improve instructional, interpersonal, and coping skills; examines the components of successful mentoring initiatives; and offers new information on:

• The stages of teacher needs and development
• Professional growth for long-term teaching success
• Assessment of student work
• Working with difficult mentees
• The role of mentors within teacher induction programs

This straightforward resource helps mentors guide beginning teachers on a rewarding and satisfying path of careerlong development and offers invaluable assistance for administrators who plan to establish a mentoring program or revitalize an existing one.

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Kathleen Feeney Jonson, Ed.D., is currently Professor and Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Reading program in the Teacher Education Department of the University of San Francisco. As the oldest of nine children, she says she was born to teach and mentor! In her 37 years as an educator, she has taught at the elementary and secondary levels and has served as a reading specialist, director of staff development, principal, and director of curriculum and instruction. She has conducted numerous workshops for teachers and administrators on such topics as integrating the curriculum, reading comprehension strategies, writing process, portfolio assessment, peer coaching, and beginning teacher assistance programs. She has developed numerous curriculum guides, training syllabi, and program materials for educators and parents. Her professional experience includes teaching university courses in elementary and secondary curriculum and instruction, as well as serving as Field Coordinator working with student teachers, mentor teachers, and university supervisors. She has published three books with Corwin Press, including 60 Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension in Grades K-8 (2006), The New Elementary Teacher¿s Handbook, 2^nd edition (2001), and Being an Effective Mentor: How to Help Beginning Teachers Succeed, 1^st edition (2002).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Corwin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1412940613
• ISBN 13: 9781412940610
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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