Overview

Here’s the fastest way to get a top-quality mentoring program up and running or to improve your current approach to mentoring beginning teachers. Practical tools and templates help you guide and evaluate your mentoring effort based on the latest theory and school-tested approaches. Questionnaires, self-evaluations, and checklists illuminate the stages of developing expertise and explore specific strategies, approaches, and patterns for supporting emerging beginners.

Dozens of tools help you support and challenge new teachers within the context of these three mentoring goals:

• Mentoring to develop the professional capacities of new teachers
• Mentoring to help new teachers start, structure, and sustain their thinking
• Mentoring to develop teachers’ flexibility in a classroom where there is constant interaction

This Action Tool will help you extend your communication skills. And a series of self-guided tasks extends your repertoire as a mentor and guides you through the arenas of expert teaching and how mentors support novices in each arena.

(ASCD Action Tool, 2003) Three-ring binder, 200 pages.

For the educational leader who needs to implement school improvement solutions quickly, here’s something totally new and different: ASCD Action Tools. Each Action Tool is packed with templates, agendas, case studies, tips, and other ready-to-use tools so that you can take immediate steps toward advancing school improvement.

Sampling of ASCD Action Tools:

Creating the Capacity for Change: An ASCD Action Tool

Guide for Instructional Leaders, Guide 1: An ASCD Action Tool

Strategies for Teaching Writing: An ASCD Action Tool