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A comprehensive guide for developing successful mentors

In the latest edition of this bestseller, the author draws upon research, experience, and insights to provide an overview of essential mentoring behaviors. Packed with strategies, exercises, and resources, this book examines four critical mentoring functions and gives school leaders, mentors, and staff developers the tools to create a dynamic mentoring program or revitalize an existing one. Features and topics new to this edition include:

• Classroom observation methods and instruments
• Teacher mentor standards based on the NBPTS Core Propositions
• Approaches to mentoring the nontraditional new teacher
• A guide for careerlong professional development