Mutual Mentoring for Mid-Career Teachers: Trekking with Colleagues for Joy and Growth [Paperback]

Mentoring shouldnt just be for new teachers! In this helpful resource, authors Karen Weller Swanson and Micki M. Caskey show how mid-career mentoring can rejuvenate your joy of teaching, plan for career progressions, and build a healthy work-life balance. With this book, mid-career teachers will be able to thrive in a mentoring space.

Part 1: Wandering 1. Mutual Mentoring: Teacher-Friends  2. Self-Directed Learning: Trekking with a Partner or Solo  3. Communication: Dialogue, Conversation, and Good Talk   4. Practice: Going Deeper and Moving Forward  Part 2: Exploring  5. Resilience, Transformative Learning, and Teacher Identity  6. Packing, Unpacking, and Repacking  7. Critical Thinking, Passion, and Work-Life Balance  Part 3: Venturing  8. Preparing for an Adventure  9. On Our Way  10. Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Mentoring is for teachers across the career span! In this helpful resource, authors Karen Weller Swanson and Micki M. Caskey show how mid-career mentoring can rejuvenate your joy of teaching, plan for career progressions, and build a healthy work-life balance.

The authors lay out a framework for mutual mentoring that uses a trekking metaphor and a choose-your-own-adventure style, which allows for individualized professional development focusing on topics most important to you. Through this approach, you will learn how to create a community of practice with other teachers, how to engage in dialogue about teaching and exchange ideas, methods for productively responding to challenges, and ideas for learning new skills and revising or abandoning practices. The authors also cover how to establish healthy boundaries, create a sustl#�