The Reflective Educator’s Guide to Mentoring: Strengthening Practice Through Knowledge, Story, and Metaphor

Diane Yendol-Hoppey, Nancy Fichtman Dana

Research output: Book/ReportBook

Abstract

Effective mentoring requires planned and mindful attention to the ways in which one's knowledge, skills, and experience can be passed on to new teachers. Stressing the importance of deep reflection on one's mentoring practice, the award-winning authors offer eight models/metaphors that mentors can customize to meet the individual needs of their mentees. Proven strategies and real-life stories help teacher educators, trainers, and mentors to:

Meet the diverse needs of mentor/mentee relationships
Develop helpful mentoring tools
Continue to reflect, learn, and grow as mentors
This resource is sure to inspire critical conversation and fresh insights among all mentors committed to professional growth for themselves and their fellow teachers.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages168
StatePublished - 2007

Keywords

  • mentoring in education
  • case studies

Disciplines

  • Psychology
  • Curriculum and Instruction

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