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Title Dimensions in mentoring : a continuum of practice from beginning teachers to teacher leaders / edited by Susan D. Myers and Connie W. Anderson
Published Rotterdam ; Boston : Sense Publishers, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 265 pages) : illustrations, tables
Contents Introduction : considering mentoring from different perspectives / Susan D. Myers, Connie W. Anderson -- Section 1. Mentoring pre-service teachers and students ; Overview / Margaret Johnson -- Preservice teacher identity : developing teacher identity at 45 / Reagan Mason -- Growing into the teaching profession through service learning / Reese H. Todd -- "I am getting a student teacher--now what?" : guidelines to mentor your student teacher to success / Deanna G. Bermudez -- Mentor tech : mentoring underrepresented students to enhance the experiences of first generation college students / Connie W. Anderson and Corey Powell -- Applied cognitive science : mentoring through scaffolds / Craig McCarron -- "I don't really rely on the textbook" : mentoring a teacher candidate towards teaching content area literacy / Mellinee Lesley --
Section 2. Mentoring from the field ; Overview / Susan D. Myers -- Empowering new teachers through core reflection / Roni Adams, William Greene, and Younghee Kim -- What happens to mentoring when school budgets are cut? : teacher mentor narratives / Susan D. Myers -- Mentoring students in a collaborative team environment of live performance production / Susan Brandt -- Development of a master mentor teacher program : from inception to implementation / Connie W. Anderson -- Online mentoring : lessons learned / Jill T. White and Charlotte J. Boling -- Who mentors the school principal? : enriching the principalship conversation with mentoring and coaching support / Fernando Valle and Cynthia Luna --
Section 3. Mentoring in academia and beyond ; Overview / Bonita Butner -- Research writing teams as a form of mentoring for graduate students / Fanni L. Coward and Stacy A. Jacob -- Team teaching qualitative research as academic Mentorship / Margaret A. Price and Sally McMillan -- Aligning the Ph.D. and mentoring experiences of U.S. underrepresented minority students in engineering / Monica F. Cox, Jiabin Zhu, Cyndi Lynch, and Stephanie G. Adams -- The twelve steps of academic adolescence : our autoethnographic and archetypal map through academia / Sally McMillan and Margaret A. Price -- Walking into fire : navagating tough topics in your first university faculty position / Stacy A. Jacob and Debra S. Gentry -- Traveling the tenure track : mentoring and collaborative research among African American female faculty in a midwestern university / S. Marie McCarther, Donna M. Davis, and Loyce Caruthers -- Emotionally intelligent teaching : mentoring and teaching excellence using a transformative learning model / Darwin Nelson, Gary Low, and Richard Hammett -- Concluding thoughts / Susan D. Myers and Connie W. Anderson
Summary This book provides practitioners, researchers, and those involved in mentoring activities insight into varying types of mentoring. It covers aspects of mentoring with preservice teachers, K-12 practitioners, academia, and professionals in public and private sectors. Other areas not typically covered include service learning, faculty and graduate student writing and research groups, undergraduate and graduate student mentoring groups, online programs for alternatively certified teachers, formal mentoring programs for marginalized and underrepresented populations, academic mentoring for tenured faculty, and mentoring support for administrators at all levels! A unique approach to mentoring, a variety of theoretical contexts and frameworks are presented and suggestions for discussions, assignments, and dialogue opportunities are offered at the end of each chapter. These suggestions are practical applications with implications for extending conversations among professionals, while being easily transferable to a variety of professional development activities. Primarily intended for teacher educators, it is a complete guide for those in public education who are interested in professional development activities
Analysis Education
Education (general)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at chapter ends
Notes English
Subject Mentoring in education.
Student teachers -- Supervision of.
Teachers -- Training of -- United States.
EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- General.
Education.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Mentoring in education
Genre/Form Instructional and educational works.
Form Electronic book
Author Myers, Susan D., editor, author.
Anderson, Connie W., editor, author.
ISBN 9789460918704
9460918700
9460918697
9789460918698
Other Titles Continuum of practice from beginning teachers to teacher leaders