Mentoring Guidebook Level 2: Exploring Teaching Strategies - Softcover

Burke, Kay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575176076 ISBN 13: 9781575176079

Publisher: Corwin, 2002

Synopsis

Formerly a SkyLight publication

This second volume in a two-part mentoring series uses the foundations presented in Mentoring Guidebook Level 1: Starting the Journey  and further explores the key skills and strategies of a successful mentoring relationship. Each skill is examined in greater detail and includes:

• Observation and data-gathering techniques
• Integrated lesson planning
• Brain-compatible teaching
• Cooperative learning
• Performance tasks
• Portfolios
• The professional development process

Mentoring Guidebook Level 2: Exploring Teaching Strategies also explores the importance of establishing successful communication strategies and building effective learning communities of paraprofessionals, parents, volunteers, and teachers.

About this title

About the Author

Kay Burke has served as an award-winning classroom teacher and a school administrator, university instructor, and international professional developer. She works with Kay Burke & Associates, LLC, to provide workshops for teachers and administrators in standards-based learning, performance assessment, classroom management, mentoring, and portfolio development. For the past 18 years, Burke has presented at state and national conferences such as ASCD, NSDC, NAESP, NASSP, NMSA, and IRA as well as international conferences in Canada and Australia. She is the author of 10 professional development books and coauthor of a college textbook on assessment. Corwin Press published Burke′s best-selling From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps: Tools for Assessing Student Learning, K–8 (2006), a 2007 finalist for the Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing presented by the Association of Educational Publishers. Other books published by Corwin Press include How to Assess Authentic Learning, Fourth Edition (2005) and What to Do With the Kid Who: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline and Responsibility in the Classroom (Third Edition).

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575176076
• ISBN 13: 9781575176079
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328