Teachers as mentors : models for promoting achievement with disadvantaged and underrepresented students by creating community / Aram Ayalon ; foreword by Deborah W. Meier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ayalon, Aram, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenagers with social disabilities--Education (Secondary)--United States--Case studies.

Teenagers with social disabilities.

Mentoring in education--United States--Case studies.

Mentoring in education.

Mentoring in education--Israel--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book describes two similar and successful models of youth mentoring used by two acclaimed urban high schools that have consistently achieved exceptional graduation rates. Providing a detailed description of their methods - based upon extensive observation, and interviews with teachers, students, administrators, and parents - this book makes a major contribution to the debate on how to reduce the achievement gap. Using similar teacher-as-youth mentor and youth advising models, these two inner city schools - Fenway High School in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Kedma School in Jerusalem - hav

Contents:

pt. 1. Establishing nurturing schools

pt. 2. Mentoring classes

pt. 3. Individual teacher-student relationships

pt. 4. Mentor support systems

pt. 5. Summary and implications.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-00-344733-3

1-000-97551-7

1-003-44733-3

1-57922-607-8

9781003447337

OCLC:

779849905