Becoming a High-Performance Mentor
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"I serve as a mentor principal, but I didn't receive much training in the how to's of being a mentor. I wish I had read this book years ago!"
-Becky Cooke, Principal
Evergreen Elementary, Spokane, WA
"I recommend this book highly to mentor program coordinators who are looking to refine the training and practice of their existing mentors. It goes deeper into the process of mentoring and reflection."
-Audrey Lakin, Teacher Induction and Mentoring Coordinator
Community Unit School District #300, Carpentersville, IL
Ensure a rewarding and productive mentoring experience!
High-performance mentors are not born. Even experienced educators need training in order to provide constructive support to entry-year teachers. James B. Rowley's mentoring framework has been used to successfully train thousands of teachers to acquire the six essential behaviors of high-performance mentoring: committing, accepting, communicating, coaching, learning, and inspiring.
With more than twenty years of experience in training mentor teachers, Rowley blends real-life stories with established research to help readers:
- Understand mentoring as a performance continuum with escalating developmental stages
- Improve assessment, communication, and coaching skills
- Reflect on the mentoring process and analyze mentoring relationships
- Utilize mentoring as a pathway to personal and professional growth
Designed for experienced and novice mentor teachers, this book will also be an enormously useful resource for mentor program coordinators, trainers, staff developers, and principals who want to assure that participants grow in their teaching practice as a result of the mentoring experience.
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
- 1. Introduction
- Many Right Ways
- Depends on What?
- A Framework for Reflection and Self-Assessment
- 2. Mentoring
- Low- to High-Performance Mentoring
- Quality Mentoring as Quality Conversation
- Good Mentoring as Good Teaching
- Mentoring as Pathway to Personal Growth
- The Development of the Mentoring Relationship
- Questions for Reflection on Mentoring
- 3. Committing
- Commitment and Influence
- Causes of Low Mentor Commitment
- Low Mentee Commitment
- Commitment Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Committing
- 4. Accepting
- The Challenge of Acceptance
- Relationship of Acceptance and Understanding
- Acceptance Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Accepting
- 5. Communicating
- A Conversation Revisited
- Developmental Mentoring
- Beliefs Influence Practice
- The Mentor Teacher Beliefs Inventory
- From Theory to Practice
- To Guide or Not to Guide
- Communication Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Communicating
- 6. Coaching
- Relationship of Mentoring to Coaching
- Cognitive Coaching
- Coaching for Confidence and Competence
- Coaching as Cognitive Apprenticeship
- The Role of Observation in Coaching
- Coaching Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Coaching
- 7. Learning
- Embracing New Ideas
- Open to New Behaviors
- Formal and Informal Teacher Learning
- A Framework for Teacher Learning
- Learning Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Learning
- 8. Inspiring
- Personal Reflections on Inspiration
- Inspiration Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Inspiring
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
"I serve as a mentor principal, but I didn't receive much training in the how to's of being a mentor. I wish I had read this book years ago!"
-Becky Cooke, Principal
Evergreen Elementary, Spokane, WA
"I recommend this book highly to mentor program coordinators who are looking to refine the training and practice of their existing mentors. It goes deeper into the process of mentoring and reflection."
-Audrey Lakin, Teacher Induction and Mentoring Coordinator
Community Unit School District #300, Carpentersville, IL
Ensure a rewarding and productive mentoring experience!
High-performance mentors are not born. Even experienced educators need training in order to provide constructive support to entry-year teachers. James B. Rowley's mentoring framework has been used to successfully train thousands of teachers to acquire the six essential behaviors of high-performance mentoring: committing, accepting, communicating, coaching, learning, and inspiring.
With more than twenty years of experience in training mentor teachers, Rowley blends real-life stories with established research to help readers:
- Understand mentoring as a performance continuum with escalating developmental stages
- Improve assessment, communication, and coaching skills
- Reflect on the mentoring process and analyze mentoring relationships
- Utilize mentoring as a pathway to personal and professional growth
Designed for experienced and novice mentor teachers, this book will also be an enormously useful resource for mentor program coordinators, trainers, staff developers, and principals who want to assure that participants grow in their teaching practice as a result of the mentoring experience.
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
- 1. Introduction
- Many Right Ways
- Depends on What?
- A Framework for Reflection and Self-Assessment
- 2. Mentoring
- Low- to High-Performance Mentoring
- Quality Mentoring as Quality Conversation
- Good Mentoring as Good Teaching
- Mentoring as Pathway to Personal Growth
- The Development of the Mentoring Relationship
- Questions for Reflection on Mentoring
- 3. Committing
- Commitment and Influence
- Causes of Low Mentor Commitment
- Low Mentee Commitment
- Commitment Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Committing
- 4. Accepting
- The Challenge of Acceptance
- Relationship of Acceptance and Understanding
- Acceptance Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Accepting
- 5. Communicating
- A Conversation Revisited
- Developmental Mentoring
- Beliefs Influence Practice
- The Mentor Teacher Beliefs Inventory
- From Theory to Practice
- To Guide or Not to Guide
- Communication Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Communicating
- 6. Coaching
- Relationship of Mentoring to Coaching
- Cognitive Coaching
- Coaching for Confidence and Competence
- Coaching as Cognitive Apprenticeship
- The Role of Observation in Coaching
- Coaching Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Coaching
- 7. Learning
- Embracing New Ideas
- Open to New Behaviors
- Formal and Informal Teacher Learning
- A Framework for Teacher Learning
- Learning Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Learning
- 8. Inspiring
- Personal Reflections on Inspiration
- Inspiration Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Inspiring
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
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June 2006 | 208 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 01/02/2026 | 9781412917667 | $79.95 |
| Paperback | 28/04/2023 | 9781412917674 | $39.95 |
| Lifetime | 28/04/2023 | 9781483361796 | $36.00 |
"I serve as a mentor principal, but I didn't receive much training in the how to's of being a mentor. I wish I had read this book years ago!"
-Becky Cooke, Principal
Evergreen Elementary, Spokane, WA
"I recommend this book highly to mentor program coordinators who are looking to refine the training and practice of their existing mentors. It goes deeper into the process of mentoring and reflection."
-Audrey Lakin, Teacher Induction and Mentoring Coordinator
Community Unit School District #300, Carpentersville, IL
Ensure a rewarding and productive mentoring experience!
High-performance mentors are not born. Even experienced educators need training in order to provide constructive support to entry-year teachers. James B. Rowley's mentoring framework has been used to successfully train thousands of teachers to acquire the six essential behaviors of high-performance mentoring: committing, accepting, communicating, coaching, learning, and inspiring.
With more than twenty years of experience in training mentor teachers, Rowley blends real-life stories with established research to help readers:
- Understand mentoring as a performance continuum with escalating developmental stages
- Improve assessment, communication, and coaching skills
- Reflect on the mentoring process and analyze mentoring relationships
- Utilize mentoring as a pathway to personal and professional growth
Designed for experienced and novice mentor teachers, this book will also be an enormously useful resource for mentor program coordinators, trainers, staff developers, and principals who want to assure that participants grow in their teaching practice as a result of the mentoring experience.
Table Of Contents:
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- 1. Introduction
- Many Right Ways
- Depends on What?
- A Framework for Reflection and Self-Assessment
- 2. Mentoring
- Low- to High-Performance Mentoring
- Quality Mentoring as Quality Conversation
- Good Mentoring as Good Teaching
- Mentoring as Pathway to Personal Growth
- The Development of the Mentoring Relationship
- Questions for Reflection on Mentoring
- 3. Committing
- Commitment and Influence
- Causes of Low Mentor Commitment
- Low Mentee Commitment
- Commitment Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Committing
- 4. Accepting
- The Challenge of Acceptance
- Relationship of Acceptance and Understanding
- Acceptance Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Accepting
- 5. Communicating
- A Conversation Revisited
- Developmental Mentoring
- Beliefs Influence Practice
- The Mentor Teacher Beliefs Inventory
- From Theory to Practice
- To Guide or Not to Guide
- Communication Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Communicating
- 6. Coaching
- Relationship of Mentoring to Coaching
- Cognitive Coaching
- Coaching for Confidence and Competence
- Coaching as Cognitive Apprenticeship
- The Role of Observation in Coaching
- Coaching Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Coaching
- 7. Learning
- Embracing New Ideas
- Open to New Behaviors
- Formal and Informal Teacher Learning
- A Framework for Teacher Learning
- Learning Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Learning
- 8. Inspiring
- Personal Reflections on Inspiration
- Inspiration Indicators
- Questions for Reflection on Inspiring
- References
- Index