Training Mentors Is Not Enough: Everything Else Schools and Districts Need to Do / Edition 1

by Hal Portner

Overview

This how-to guide and practical workbook will help planners and participants develop an exemplary mentoring program or upgrade an existing one.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761977377
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/10/2001
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Hal Portner is a former K-12 teacher and administrator. He was assistant director of the Summer Math Program for High School Women and Their Teachers at Mount Holyoke College, and for 24 years he was a teacher and then administrator in two Connecticut public school districts. From 1985 to 1995, he was a member of the Connecticut State Department of Education’s Bureau of Certification and Professional Development, where, among other responsibilities, he served as coordinator of the Connecticut Institute for Teaching and Learning and worked closely with school districts to develop and carry out professional development and teacher evaluation plans and programs. Hal developed and teaches for Western New England University a 3 credit MEd in Curriculum and Instruction online core course in Mentoring, Coaching, and professional development.

Portner writes, develops materials, trains mentors, facilitates the development of new teacher and peer-mentoring programs, and consults for school districts and other educational organizations and institutions. In addition to Mentoring New Teachers, he is the author of Training Mentors Is Not Enough: Everything Else Schools and Districts Need to Do (2001), Being Mentored: A Guide for Protégés (2002), Workshops that Really Work: The ABCs of Designing and Delivering Sensational Presentations (2005), and editor of Teacher Mentoring and Induction: The State of the Art and Beyond (2005) – all published by Corwin Press. He holds an MEd from the University of Michigan and a 6th-year Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study (CAGS) in education admin­istration from the University of Connecticut. For three years, he was with the University of Massachusetts Ed D Educational Leadership Program.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Commitment
Putting Commitment to Work
The Macro-System
Roles and Responsibilities (It Takes a Community to Induct a Teacher)
Policies, Procedures and Particulars
Professional Development for Newly Trained Mentors
Evaluating the Fledgling Mentoring Program
Some Other Programs Related to Mentoring
Inventing the Future
Planning an Exemplary Program

Editorial Reviews

"[Portner] provides concrete suggestions to overcome such problems as lack of time for the mentor-mentee relationship, the difficulty of prioritizing budget items as they relate to one’s mentoring program, providing compensation for mentors, and ethically and legally selecting the best mentors. "

Mentoring and Tutoring