Mentoring New Teachers Hardcover

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Quality mentoring can provide the support and guidance critical to an educator’s first years of teaching. In the latest edition of the best-selling Mentoring New Teachers Hal Portner draws upon research experience and insights to provide a comprehensive overview of essential mentoring behaviors. Packed with strategies exercises resources and concepts this book examines four critical mentoring functions: establishing good rapport assessing men tee progress coaching continuous improvement and guiding men tees toward self-reliance. Tools and topics new to this edition include:
Teacher mentor standards based on the NBPTS Core Propositions and validated by members of the International Mentoring Association and other practitioners
Classroom observation methods and competency instruments
Tools to assess preferred learning styles
Approaches to mentoring the nontraditional new teacher
A guide for career long professional development
School leaders experienced and prospective mentors and staff developers can use this step-by-step handbook to create a dynamic mentoring program or revitalize an existing one.
Features:Title – Mentoring New Teachers
Author – Hal Portner
Primary Author Affiliation – Educational Consultant Texas
Binding – Hardcover
Pages – 168
Publication Date – 29-Apr-08
Edition No – Third Edition
Primary Subject Code – Mentoring – C86
Item Weight – 14 oz.
Copyright Year – 2008
About the AuthorHal Portner is a former K-12 teacher and administrator. He was assistant director of the Summer Math Program for High School Women and Their Teachers at Mount Holyoke College and for 24 years he was a teacher and then administrator in two Connecticut public school districts. From 1985 to 1995 he was a member of the C