Mentoring Beginning Teachers: Guiding, Reflecting, Coaching
By Jean Boreen.
Description
New teachers once shared the unhappy experience of being set adrift in their first classrooms, relying only on what they had learned in preservice courses or picked up from brief stints of student teaching. This is fortunately no longer the case, for preservice and inservice programs have wisely enlisted practicing veteran teachers as mentors to help beginning teachers start their careers with confidence and support. Mentoring enables beginning teachers to explore their beliefs and challenge their assumptions about teaching under the watchful guidance of more experienced colleagues.This boo...
ISBN(s)
1571103090, 9781571103093
