Mentoring Beginning Teachers
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How can we better equip beginning teachers for the challenges they face upon entering the classroom in the first few years?
Resources
- Mentors in the making: developing new leaders for new teachers / by Betty Achinstein & Steven Athanases (Eds.)
- Being an effective mentor: How to help beginning teachers succeed / by Kathleeb Feeney Jonson
You may be interested to follow up on the following article:
- Starting out in teaching: surviving or thriving as a new teacher / by Marie Cameron, Susan Lovett, Jennifer Garvey Berger
- "Teachers’ experiences in their first year of teaching are critical. A five-year study of promising first-year New Zealand teachers has identified the aspects of teacher induction programs which are most influential in helping new teachers to feel positive and successful in their work. Good mentoring practice involved modelling classroom practices and observing the new teacher as they tried them, and allowing regular, substantial ‘quality time’ with the new teacher. The activity identified as most helpful was watching other teachers teach. Formal observations and the resulting formative feedback were also seen as valuable."
- Full reference: Cameron, M., Lovett, S. & Jennifer Garvey Berger. (2007). Starting out in teaching: surviving or thriving as a new teacher. Set: Research Information for Teachers, 3, 32–37.
