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Mentoring Across Boundaries
Helping Beginning Teachers Succeed in Challenging Situations
Designed for mentors, administrators, and teacher educators, Mentoring Across Boundaries builds on the foundations of the authors' book Mentoring Beginning Teachers to explore many of the specific issues that impact the mentoring relationship.
While there are general mentoring strategies that apply to nearly all programs, the success of any individual mentoring situation is affected by the relationship between mentor and mentee, the school environment, the mentee's stage of career, and other influences.
Among the issues the authors explore are:
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Designed for mentors, administrators, and teacher educators, Mentoring Across Boundaries builds on the foundations of the authors' book Mentoring Beginning Teachers to explore many of the specific issues that impact the mentoring relationship.
While there are general mentoring strategies that apply to nearly all programs, the success of any individual mentoring situation is affected by the relationship between mentor and mentee, the school environment, the mentee's st...read more
About the Author(s)
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Setting the Stage for Effective Mentoring
1. Choosing and Supporting Good Mentors
2. Mentoring Through Goal Setting: "Where Are We Going and How Do We Know We Have Arrived?"
Part II: Responding to Challenging Situations
3. Age and Gender
4. Mentoring Across Culture
5. Mentoring in Rural or Urban Schools
6. Moving Across Buildings or Districts: Experienced Teachers in New Environments
7. Mentoring the Teacher Teaching At-Risk Students
8. Mentoring to Avoid Burnout
9. Self-Mentoring: Coaching Oneself Toward Growth
10. Mentoring the Teacher Who Struggles
11. Thinking Outside the Box: Using Technology to Support Mentoring
Appendix A: Internet Resources for Mentors and Beginning Teachers
Appendix B: Sample Mentoring Questionnaires
Contributors
References