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Teachers mentoring teachers : a practical approach to helping new and experienced staff / John C. Daresh ; cover designer, Tracy E. Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daresh, John C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mentoring in education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (100 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin Press, Inc., 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This highly interactive guide offers a step-by-step method for planning, implementing, and evaluating mentor programs to maximize teacher satisfaction and productivity.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- About the Author
- Chapter 1 - Mentoring: A Welcome Teaching Assistant
- Why Start a Mentoring Program?
- Benefits to Mentors
- Benefits to Protégés
- Benefits to Districts
- Potential Problems with Mentoring
- Summarizing the Chapter
- Chapter 2 - Initial Program Development
- Planning a Program: A Typical Case
- Mentoring Planning Team: Setting the Stage
- Implementation: Putting it all Together
- Appraisal: How Did it Work?
- Chapter 3 - What is Our Purpose?
- Decide the Target Groups
- Two Cases
- Identifying a Purpose
- Checking Your Plan
- Chapter 4 - Who is a Mentor?
- Characteristics of Mentors: One Case
- Characteristics of Mentors: A Second Case
- Are Good Teachers Always Good Mentors?
- What are Some Characteristics of Effective Mentors?
- Danger Signals
- Responsibilities of Mentors
- Chapter 5 - Preparing People to Serve as Mentors
- Domain 1: Orientation to Mentoring
- Domain 2: Effective Planning and Managing of Instruction
- Domain 3: Human Relations Skills
- Domain 4: Mentor Process Skills
- Domain 5: Local Implementation Issues
- Chapter 6 - Matching Mentors and Protégés
- A Case of a Bad Match
- Mentor Matching: Some Myths
- So What Should You Use?
- Some Additional thoughts
- Chapter 7 - What Do Mentors Do?
- A Case in Point
- Additional Responsibilities of Mentors
- Developing an Action Plan
- Chapter 8 - Mentoring for Beginning Teachers
- Beginning Teachers' Needs
- A Case Study
- How Could Mentoring Help?
- References
- Chapter 9 - Mentoring for Veterans.
- Mentoring for Veterans: Two Cases
- Mentoring for Experienced Transfers
- Mentoring for Veterans within a System
- Chapter 10 - Did the Mentoring Program Work?
- Evaluation Questions
- Chapter 11 - Moving beyond Starting Your Mentoring Program
- How Does Professional Development Fit?
- Reviewing Local Priorities
- What Happens after Mentoring?
- Appendix A: Answers to the Mentoring Background Quiz in Chapter 1
- Appendix B: Mentor-Protégé Action Planning Form
- Suggested Readings
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781483360720
- 1483360725
- 9781483362915
- 1483362914
- OCLC:
- 932344344
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