Synopsis
High-Performance Mentoring Kit provides experienced teachers with everything needed to be effective mentors to their first-year teachers. Field-tested for 3 years, it provides the information, organization, materials, and confidence to provide ongoing professional development.
Facilitator′s Guide
This comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide provides clear instructions to ensure your workshop is a success. You′ll find detailed descriptions of 25 individual workshop modules, including training objectives, materials needed, and recommended instructional strategies.
The book covers:
- How to plan and promote your workshop
- How to facilitate a successful workshop
- How to select, match, support, and assess mentor teachers
- How to involve site administrators and encourage their support
Videotapes
Important issues are addressed by first-year and experienced teachers, experienced mentors, and administrators in four professionally produced videotapes. Short video clips are individually titled and arranged in the order that they appear in the workshop agenda. Included are problem-solving video case studies of conferences involving a mentor and mentee, and classroom teaching episodes with real students. Totaling over 120 minutes of programming, the clips are an important part of the training program. Stopping points are indicated on the videotapes to allow facilitators to lead group discussions on the topics addressed.
CD-ROM with PowerPointŪ Slides
More than 250 slides supporting this training program are provided on the CD-ROM, which is Mac and Windows compatible. You may also print the slides, then reproduce them as transparencies for overhead projection. Step-by-step instructions explaining how to download and use PowerPointŪ Viewer are included with the CD-ROM.
Participant′s Notebook
The notebook contains copies of all PowerPointŪ slides, formatted for easy note taking during training. The notebook also contains all handouts needed during the training. The complete text is included on the CD-ROM; simply print the necessary files to create copies for use in all your workshops.
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About the Author
James B. Rowley is the James Leary Professor in the School of Education and Allied Professions at the University of Dayton and the executive director of the Institute for Technology-Enhanced Learning.
Over the past 20 years, he has focused his scholarship on the training and support of mentors and beginning teachers and has served as an entry-year program consultant and mentor teacher trainer for over 100 school districts. He is also the co-creator of other multimedia training programs, including Recruiting and Training Successful Substitute Teachers (1998), Becoming a Star Urban Teacher (1995), and Mentoring the New Teacher (1994).
In addition to the multimedia publications listed above, Rowley is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and monographs. He is the author of the Corwin Press book Becoming a High-Performance Mentor: A Guide to Reflection and Action (2006). Rowley has delivered over 200 presentations at professional conferences and has led training programs throughout the United States. In 1993 and 995, he was the recipient of the National Association of Teacher Educator’s annual award for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education. In 1985, he was selected as a national semi-finalist in the NASA’s Teacher in Space program and competed for the chance to be the first private citizen in space. He earned his doctorate in educational policy and leadership from The Ohio State University.
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