Mentoring Matters 3rd Edition

This Mentoring Guide aims to support early childhood educarers, teachers and leaders in setting up and formalising a mentoring culture and programme within their own centres. It aims to promote good practice in mentoring programmes by providing a structured process where both mentor and mentee will benefit as part of their professional development journey. Setting common understanding on the roles of both mentor and mentee, and identifying different types of mentoring which might be needed, are some of the methods this guide utilises to lay the foundation for the development of a strong mentoring structure. [Publisher summary, ed]

Patterned after Strunk and White's classic The Elements of Style, this new edition concisely summarizes the substantial existing research on the art and science of mentoring. The Elements of Mentoring reduces this wealth of published material on the topic to the sixty-five most important and pithy truths for supervisors in all fields. These explore what excellent mentors do, what makes an excellent mentor, how to set up a successful mentor-protégé relationship, how to work through problems that develop between mentor and protégé, what it means to mentor with integrity, and how to end the relationship when it has run its course. Succinct and comprehensive, this is a must-have for any mentor or mentor-to-be.

As schools are trying to connect with their students and assure that every student has an adult mentor in the building, the need for school-based mentoring programs could not be

Have you ever considered the immense and valuable benefits of mentorship? Are you sharing your expertise with others and helping to guide them toward success? Maybe you just want to learn how to find a great mentor and make sure you get the most out of the relationship. Either way, Mentoring Matters has the answers you need. They have to be learned. But learning them doesn't have to be hard. Educate yourself on all of the key targets, techniques, and tools for becoming a great mentor with this easy-to-apply manual. Your leadership success will be forever increased!

A comprehensive guide for developing successful mentors! In the latest edition of this bestseller, the author draws upon research, experience, and insights to provide an overview of essential mentoring behaviors. Packed with strategies, exercises, and resources, this book examines four critical mentoring functions and gives school leaders, mentors, and staff developers the tools to create a dynamic mentoring program or revitalize an existing one. Features and topics new to this edition include: Classroom observation methods and instruments Teacher mentor standards based on the NBPTS Core Propositions Approaches to mentoring the nontraditional new teacher A guide for careerlong professional development