Ages 4-16
Mentoring Beginning Teachers: Guiding, Reflecting Coaching
Jean Boreen, Mary K. Johnson, Donna Niday & Joe Potts
Novice teachers once shared the unhappy experience of being set adrift in their first classrooms, relying only on what they had learned in training courses or picked up from brief stints of student teaching. However, training programmes and teaching practice schemes are beginning to enlist experienced teachers as mentors to help new teachers start their careers with confidence and support. Mentoring enables newly qualified teachers to explore their beliefs and challenge their assumptions about teaching under the watchful guidance of more experienced colleagues.
This book offers strategies for those teachers who work as mentors with new teachers in their schools. The authors provide a view of mentoring new teachers that is enlightening and rewarding for both the mentor and the novice. By modelling reflective thinking practices mentors enhance both their own and the novice teacher's professional growth. And drawing from their own experiences, mentors respond to questions from novices with practical ideas supported by sound theoretical principles.
The authors illustrate how to help the novice teacher move beyond the typical plan-teach-evaluate formula to another level of joint assessment and reflection. They provide helpful insights, a theoretical framework, and mentoring models and strategies for working with new teachers. Anecdotes, journal entries, reflective writings and other illustrations provide examples of ongoing mentor-novice communications. Also included is a section on questions commonly asked of mentors. These practical ideas, substantiated by theoretical principles, encourage a rich, rewarding experience for both the mentor and the new teacher.
Contents
Why do I want to be part of the mentoring experience?; Why Do We Need Mentors?; How Do I Prepare to Be a Mentoring Guide?; How Do I Prepare to Be a Mentoring Coach?; How Do I Help with Classroom Management Challenges?; How Do I Encourage Reflection?; How Do I Encourage Professional Development?; ‘What If?’ Questions from Mentors; Appendix: Student Teacher Interview
Resources for Teachers; References
2000 144pp paperback
978-1-57110-309-3
£19.99
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