PAGE INDEX:
Administrator's Role
in Mentoring
Mentoring
of New Teachers: Help for Administrators, 18 page selection
from the other materials just for administrators. Includes check
lists to coordinate mentor & administrator roles, mentor logs,
mentoring action plans, ideas for finding time, communication
cautions for mentors, principal & proteges, and ideas for
linking a quality mentoring program to the School Improvement
Process. $12.00
A Check List for Administrators with an Internship/Mentor
Program. Offered by a principal in the Indiana Beginning Teacher
Assistance Program. At - http://ideanet.doe.state.in.us/super/083096/do1.html
How to Work Effectively With Student Teachers,
from Tips For Principals, by NASSP, November 1989.
Holding Mentors Accountable
for Mentoring, 8 pages, includes a "Mentoring Log".
$9.00
Inappropriate
Mentor Behaviors: What To Do With Mentors Who Will Coach or Supervise,
But Not Mentor. 2 pages, $3.00.
Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning,
is a 200 page book by Chip Bell for $24.95. It's for managers
in business but it looks like it would have a lot of information
that is relevant for school and central administrators. Available
from Lakewood Publishing, 50 S. Ninth St. Minneapolis, MN 55402
(800)707-7769 .
Mentoring the Mentor: A Challenge for Staff Development.
An article from the fall 1996 Journal of Staff Development, by
NSDC, available at- http://www.nsdc.org/
Plans
& Samples For Mentor Program Evaluation. 27 pages,
program evaluation plans, sample program evaluations by classroom
& student support services mentors & proteges, by "guide"
teachers, and by novice teachers about the need to start a mentor
program. $15.00
Student Teachers and the Building Principal...The
Missing Link, Vann, A. (1986). Action in Teacher Education.
ATE, 10 (4); 59-62.
Mentoring of New Administrators
Some
Ideas Concerning the Mentoring of New Administrators,
by Barry Sweeny, $4.00.
Leaders Helping Leaders: A Practical Guide to Administrative
Mentoring: a 103 page guide by John Daresh and Marsha
Playko, which is very well organized and researched. Provides
guidance for program design, benefits, potential problems, some
examples, preparing people to do it, matching, evaluation of program,
etc. From Scholastic, Inc. 730 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
Administrative Mentoring: A Training Manual, by
John Daresh and Marsha Playko. A 1989 book published by University
of Northern Colorado, Center for Educational Leadership, Greeley,
CO.
The First Year as Principal, by R. Thorpe. Real
world stories from America's principals and advice for success.
For $14.95 paperback, fromHeinemann Publishing at 1-800-541-2086
