Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments About the Author Part I. Setting the Stage for the Teacher-Mentor 1. Passing the Torch 2. Set up for Success 3. Remembering the First Days 4. Beyond Survival 5. Moving Toward Professionalism Part II. Effective Strategies for the Good Mentor 6. Working as a Partner With the Adult Learner 7. Stages in Teacher Development 8. Practical Strategies for Assisting New Teachers 9. Overcoming Obstacles and Reaping the Rewards Part III. Putting It All Together Month-by-Month Mentoring Activities Year-at-a-Glance Checklist Appendix A: First-Day Checklist Appendix B: Mentor-Mentee Action Plans Appendix C: Supervisory Beliefs Inventory References Index
Strengthen your mentoring skills to significantly impact a new teacher's career! A skilled mentor can make a major difference in helping novice teachers succeed and thrive during that all-important first year. This updated edition of the best-selling book, Being an Effective Mentor strengthens practicing mentors' skills with updated strategies to help proteges develop confidence and expertise as teachers. Educator and mentoring expert Kathleen Feeney Jonson identifies the skills and experiences that nurture beginning teachers and provides specific, research-based techniques for mentors, such as demonstration teaching, positive observation and feedback, informal communication, role modeling, and providing direct assistance. Readers will find guidance for using reflections to promote discovery, an action plan for professional development, and month-by-month mentoring activities for building productive mentor/mentee relationships and promoting best teaching practices. This second edition demonstrates how to help new instructors improve instructional, interpersonal, and coping skills; examines the components of successful mentoring initiatives; and offers new information on: The stages of teacher needs and development Professional growth for long-term teaching success Assessment of student work Working with difficult mentees The role of mentors within teacher induction programs This straightforward resource helps mentors guide beginning teachers on a rewarding and satisfying path of careerlong development and offers invaluable assistance for administrators who plan to establish a mentoring program or revitalize an existing one.
In her 40 years as an educator, Kathleen Feeney Jonson, Professor Emeritus, has been a teacher, taught director of staff development, principal, director of curriculum and instruction, and university faculty. She conducted numerous workshops for teachers and administrators on such topics as reading comprehension strategies, writing process, portfolio assessment, peer coaching, and beginning teacher assistance programs. Until her retirement in summer 2009, Jonson was professor of education and coordinator of the Master in Arts in Teaching Reading program at the University of San Francisco's School of Education. She published three books with Corwin Press, including The New Elementary Teacher's Handbook (1st edition 1997, 2nd edition 2001), Being an Effective Mentor: How to Help Beginning Teachers Succeed (1st edition 2002, 2nd edition 2007), and 60 Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension in Grades K-8 (2006).