Presents guidance for mentors of new teachers, explaining why mentors are needed and how to think like a coach, allow freedom to experiment, help with classroom management challenges, foster reflection, and encourage professional development.
how to reach every writer in the room using current, engaging mentor texts
Marchetti, Allison
2015
Demonstrates how high school teachers can use mentor texts to inspire students to write outside of school. Includes strategies for storing new mentor texts, from trusted traditional sources to social mediums, as well as lessons that demonstrate the potential of mentor texts at every stage of the writing process.
After a few successful weeks of her internship with the famous fashion designer, Stefan Meyers, Chloe is asked to split her time between different departments--but her mentor in the new department is a very different person, and trying to please two masters at once is turning out to be more than a little stressful.
"A college student with unfulfilled Olympic dreams and a talented but troubled teen runner try to find hope for the future in an unorthodox mentorship"--Provided by publisher.
Describes the guiding principles of teacher-to-teacher mentoring, and presents a plan for effective mentoring, with advice on developing a positive mentoring relationship, working with parents, peer coaching, and other topics.
new skills for coaching people toward success in work and life
Whitworth, Laura
1998
Offers a new coaching model based on interactive participation and collaboration, explaining how the co-active coaching method can be used to help people achieve success in the workforce and other aspects of their life.
Offers practical information on building and developing an effective leadership workforce including the qualities to look for in potential leaders and ten steps for investing in others.
When Tim Daniels, now fourteen, returns to Camp Wickasaukee he serves as mentor to three rookie basketball players, continues to work on keeping his short stature from getting in his way, faces a bully, and gets help from NCAA player Dick Dunbar.