Mentoring in Action: Guiding, Sharing, and Reflecting With Novice Teachers

A Month-by-Month Curriculum for Teacher Effectiveness

Carol Pelletier Radford

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781506345116
• eBook ISBN: 9781506345123
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

The support you need for mindful mentoring and sustainable teacher success! Novice teachers bring vitality and optimism to schools. Our role as mentors is to empower novice teachers to grow in their practice and emerge as the leaders of the future. Newly revised and updated, the 2nd edition of Mentoring in Action emphasizes a unique approach: mindful mentoring that aligns your conversations to teaching standards to prepare novice teachers for their teacher evaluation. In this book you'll learn the importance of teacher leadership and how mentoring can influence teacher effectiveness. This flexible twelve-month curriculum helps you:

• Plan mentoring conversations and observations
• Differentiate support to meet the varied needs of novice teachers
• Set goals to prevent teacher burnout by sharing social and emotional learning skills
• Gather regular student feedback from student work samples and surveys
• Integrate the updated INTASC Standards into mentoring conversations

This updated edition includes QR codes and a robust companion website featuring videos, downloadable forms, and a Mentor Planning Guide and Journal for reflection. Transform your mentoring experience by confidently mentoring your novice teachers with this comprehensive guide!

"Filled with decades of her own teaching, research, and mentoring wisdom, Radford offers a guide to building the mentoring relationship, examples of mentoring in action, and instructions and modeling of purposeful mentoring conversations."
Dr. Kirsten Olsen, Author of Wounded By School and The Mindful School Leader "The best mentorship programs include support for the mentors, not just for new teachers. This book provides a roadmap for individual teacher-mentors or those in charge of mentoring programs. Everyone in a position of leadership should read and use this book."
Barbara Levin, Professor and Author of Every Teacher a Leader
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Table of contents

• Cover
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction Welcome to Mentoring in Action!
• Part I Inducting a Novice Teacher Into the Teaching Profession
• Part II Month-By-Month Mentoring
• August Orientation to the School and Community Resources and Values
• September Beginning the School Year Successfully Creating a Community of Learners in the Classroom
• October Teaching for Understanding Planning and Delivering Effective Instruction
• November Assessing Diverse Learners: How Do Teachers Know Students Have Learned?
• December Maintaining Balance Teaching and Keeping the Students Interested
• January Beginning a New Calendar Year Looking Back and Moving Forward
• February Engaging Students in the Curriculum Focus on Content Through Active Inquiry
• March Collaborating With Novice Teachers Observing and Building a Trusting Relationship
• April Standards Creating Meaningful Standards-Based Learning Experiences for Students
• May Assessing Students’ Progress High-Stakes Tests and Teacher Assessment
• June Completing the Year: Paperwork, Relationships, and Closing a Room
• July Final Reflection and Planning for Next YEAR Retreat, Reflect, Renew
• Appendices
• Index
• Publisher Note