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Being an Effective Mentor: How to Help Beginning Teachers Succeed

Being an Effective Mentor: How to Help Beginning Teachers Succeed

by KathleenF.(Feeney)Jonson (Author)

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`This is the book I have been looking for to help us in growing our fledgling mentorship programme. Kathleen Feeney Jonson has answered all our questions, from how to select and support good mentors to how to evaluate the programme's effectiveness. Her book is filled with sound research-based ideas that we can-and will-implement tomorrow!' - Kathryn Carlson, Assistant Superintendent Skaneateles Central School District, Skaneateles, New York

The author has written a comprehensive book on the mentoring process for new teacher support. Thoroughly embedded in the current research, theories, and best practices of mentoring, Kathleen Feeney Jonson provides the support and knowledge that mentor teachers need to help new teachers through their critical first years and that staff developers need to build and maintain effective mentoring programmes. The book also includes case studies, first person quotes from mentees and mentors, checklists, and sample forms.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 05 Jul 2002
ISBN 10: 0761945490
ISBN 13: 9780761945499

Media Reviews
This is the book I have been looking for to help us grow our fledgling mentorship program. Dr. Jonson has answered all our questions, from how to select and support good mentors to how to evaluate the program's effectiveness. Her book is filled with sound research-based ideas that we can-and will-implement tomorrow! -- Kathryn Carlson, Assistant Superintendent

Dr. Jonson's book provides practical ideas for every mentor of new teachers. She gives concrete examples of how, when, and what to do to ensure that new teachers receive appropriate guidance in order to increase student achievement.

-- Kristine Parker, Program Administrator, BTSA
All educators, administrators, and classrooms will benefit from reading Kathleen Jonson's excellent handbook for mentor teachers. Readable, well-organized, and thorough, it contains everything a mentor teacher needs to know to establish a successful partnership with a beginning teacher. -- Susan Gold, Year-Two Intern Supervisor
Author Bio
In her 40 years as an educator, Kathleen Feeney Jonson, Professor Emeritus, has been a teacher, taught director of staff development, principal, director of curriculum and instruction, and university faculty. She conducted numerous workshops for teachers and administrators on such topics as reading comprehension strategies, writing process, portfolio assessment, peer coaching, and beginning teacher assistance programs. Until her retirement in summer 2009, Jonson was professor of education and coordinator of the Master in Arts in Teaching Reading program at the University of San Francisco's School of Education. She published three books with Corwin Press, including The New Elementary Teacher's Handbook (1st edition 1997, 2nd edition 2001), Being an Effective Mentor: How to Help Beginning Teachers Succeed (1st edition 2002, 2nd edition 2007), and 60 Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension in Grades K-8 (2006).