Mentoring provides individual benefits to teachers such as accelerating their learning, expanding perspectives, and offering support for goals. It also encourages collaboration among teachers by facilitating dialogue during changes, exploring student work across grades, and developing leadership skills. At the school level, mentoring increases decision making capacity, develops stronger relationships and shared responsibility among staff, and retains early career teachers.
Mentoring provides individual benefits to teachers such as accelerating their learning, expanding perspectives, and offering support for goals. It also encourages collaboration among teachers by facilitating dialogue during changes, exploring student work across grades, and developing leadership skills. At the school level, mentoring increases decision making capacity, develops stronger relationships and shared responsibility among staff, and retains early career teachers.
Mentoring provides individual benefits to teachers such as accelerating their learning, expanding perspectives, and offering support for goals. It also encourages collaboration among teachers by facilitating dialogue during changes, exploring student work across grades, and developing leadership skills. At the school level, mentoring increases decision making capacity, develops stronger relationships and shared responsibility among staff, and retains early career teachers.
Individual Teachers Expands and diversifies individual perspectives Helps individual teachers meet adaptive challenges within changed assignments Helps teachers understand student misconceptions Offers individual teachers a sounding board, confidante, and role model Provides individualized and flexible support for specific professional goals Develops personal confidence and affirmation of skills and capabilities Develops self-awareness and self-reflection Models an inquiry disposition toward practice.
Encourages collaboration with peers
Opens up classrooms as sites for continuous inquiry Facilitates dialogue among teachers in the face of change and improvement initiatives Provides opportunities to explore student work Commits vision to action as educational practice evolves across grades and established criteria Develops skills of teacher leadership Increases “decisional capital” within a school Develops opportunities for teacher leadership community Creates a positive collegial environment Develops stronger relationships through sharing of Retains early career teachers strengths and vulnerabilities Allows for professional knowledge to be more accessibly Encourages shared responsibility for student learning shared. and well being.