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Benefits of Mentoring

Accelerates learning process for new 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.

School Communities District Culture

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