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Teacher to Teacher: A Guidebook for Effective Mentoring

AUTHOR Fraser, Jane
PUBLISHER Heinemann Educational Books (09/15/1998)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)
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This is a book about the growth and change that can be achieved by teachers, new and experienced, when they work together. Adults learn best when they are interested. They need opportunities to practice and time to integrate and modify new ideas to fit their belief system. Most of all, they need input from a sympathetic peer--a mentor who is there to help a protégé through the rough spots. This is the kind of guidance Teacher to Teacher provides.

Teacher to Teacher is a complete course in effective mentoring, with broad and practical suggestions on:

  • establishing and nurturing a positive mentoring relationship
  • helping protégés with classroom management
  • what protégés need to know about learning in order to help students
  • the role of reflection in teaching
  • working with parents
  • the importance of reading aloud
  • peer coaching.
Fraser describes the principles that have guided her own work mentoring new and experienced teachers, including the need for mentoring to be responsive and tailored to fit the needs of individual learners; grounded in sensitive, skilled observation; and the importance of establishing a close and honest relationship. Although her book is directed to teachers who work as mentors to other teachers, classroom teachers looking for new insight into their teaching practice will find its practical suggestions just as useful.
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ISBN-13: 9780325000121
ISBN-10: 0325000123
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 108
Carton Quantity: 50
Product Dimensions: 5.86 x 0.27 x 9.10 inches
Weight: 0.37 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Ikids
Country of Origin: US
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BISAC Categories
Education | Teaching - General
Education | Administration - General
Education | Leadership
Grade Level: Kindergarten - 5th Grade
Dewey Decimal: 371.102
Library of Congress Control Number: 98034287
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This is a book about the growth and change that can be achieved by teachers, new and experienced, when they work together. Adults learn best when they are interested. They need opportunities to practice and time to integrate and modify new ideas to fit their belief system. Most of all, they need input from a sympathetic peer--a mentor who is there to help a protégé through the rough spots. This is the kind of guidance Teacher to Teacher provides.

Teacher to Teacher is a complete course in effective mentoring, with broad and practical suggestions on:

  • establishing and nurturing a positive mentoring relationship
  • helping protégés with classroom management
  • what protégés need to know about learning in order to help students
  • the role of reflection in teaching
  • working with parents
  • the importance of reading aloud
  • peer coaching.
Fraser describes the principles that have guided her own work mentoring new and experienced teachers, including the need for mentoring to be responsive and tailored to fit the needs of individual learners; grounded in sensitive, skilled observation; and the importance of establishing a close and honest relationship. Although her book is directed to teachers who work as mentors to other teachers, classroom teachers looking for new insight into their teaching practice will find its practical suggestions just as useful.
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Author: Fraser, Jane
Jane Fraser taught elementary school for twenty-five years and worked as a staff developer with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Columbia University. She is a mentor to beginning teachers in the Westport Public Schools in Westport, Connecticut and presents workshops throughout the Northeast and at national professional conferences. Fraser coauthored, with Donna Skolnick, On Their Way: Celebrating Second Graders as They Read and Write (Heinemann, 1994).
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