Cultivating High-Quality Teaching Through Induction and Mentoring [Paperback]

This indispensable handbook focuses on new teachers' needs while emphasizing high-quality teaching through the use of standards-based teaching, teacher assessments, and reflective practice.

This indispensable handbook focuses on new teachers' needs while emphasizing high-quality teaching through the use of standards-based teaching, teacher assessments, and reflective practice.

All beginning teachers face significant challenges during their induction into the teaching profession. This book provides a cogent, thoughtful, and practical guide to working in the areas of teacher induction and mentoring, and is a must read for academics, program developers, and practitioners alike. Carol Bartell offers us an eminently practical and comprehensive roadmap to coach and assist our beginning teachers away from an unhappy ending. Bartell argues that induction is about more than retaining teachers. It is about helping all teachers become more professional and better at what they do . . . and, most important, it is about improving student learning. Bartell has done an excellent job of pulling together the research on induction and mentoring. She uses examples drawn from a variety of studies, and provides guidance for those who wish to develop or improve an existing induction program. State and district leaders would be well advised to read this book. A practical, no-nonsense and principled guide condensing decades of expertise into plain terms advice. Foreword - Linda Darling-Hammond
Preface
1. The Challenges Facing Beginning Teachers
2. Understanding the Stages of Teacher Development
3. The Characteristics of Effective Induction Programs
4. Mentoring Strategies and Best Practices
5. Urban Schools and Induction