Most schools have mentor programs in place to help beginning teachers. The challenge now is to ensure that beginning teachers are assigned high-performance, highly qualified mentors. High-performance mentors are not born that way-they need training to gain the skills and knowledge needed. As with teaching, mentors exist on a continuum from low-performing to high-performing, but can move though the developmental stages as they gain experience and reflect on prior mentoring experiences. James Rowley's mentoring framework has been used to train thousands of mentors to develop the essential characteristics of high-performance mentoring: committing, accepting, communicating, coaching, learning, and inspiring. Mentoring can be a challenging, rewarding, and mutually satisfying experience that contributes to the personal & professional growth of each participant. Or it can be a frustrating, disappointing, and mutually unsatisfactory experience that contributes nothing to personal & professional growth. Use this book to ensure that your mentors and mentees grow in their teaching practice as a result of the mentoring experience.

This kit includes eight 45-minute audiotapes and a workbook that teachers can use to polish their skills through proven strategies on discipline, curriculum development, counseling, evaluation, and more.The workbook can also be purchased separately.

Most schools have mentor programs in place to help beginning teachers. The challenge now is to ensure that beginning teachers are assigned high-performance, highly qualified mentors. High-performance mentors are not born that way-they need training to gain the skills and knowledge needed. As with teaching, mentors exist on a continuum from low-performing to high-performing, but can move though the developmental stages as they gain experience and reflect on prior mentoring experiences. James Rowley's mentoring framework has been used to train thousands of mentors to develop the essential characteristics of high-performance mentoring: committing, accepting, communicating, coaching, learning, and inspiring. Mentoring can be a challenging, rewarding, and mutually satisfying experience that contributes to the personal & professional growth of each participant. Or it can be a frustrating, disappointing, and mutually unsatisfactory experience that contributes nothing to personal & professional growth. Use this book to ensure that your mentors and mentees grow in their teaching practice as a result of the mentoring experience.

This kit includes eight 45-minute audiotapes and a workbook that teachers can use to polish their skills through proven strategies on discipline, curriculum development, counseling, evaluation, and more.The workbook can also be purchased separately.

This book provides prospective facilitators with clear instructions on how to plan and effectively deliver a "Successful Substitute Teaching" workshop.

This book provides workshop participants with copies of all "Power Point "slides formatted to facilitate note-taking or journaling during the training.

Helping beginning teachers "over the hump" of their first year is no easy job. It takes dedicated and well-trained mentors. High-Performance Mentoring helps experienced educators meet the unique challenges of mentoring first-year teachers. This Participant?s Notebook, used in conjunction with the training workshop, will help you:

• Explore the mentoring process
• Understand the problems and concerns of the beginning teacher
• Identify the six essential qualities of a high-performance mentor
• Adapt your mentoring practices to meet the needs of your mentee
• Deliver quality interpersonal support

The Participant?s Notebook includes copies of all slides or overheads and other training materials used in the workshop. As you add your own notes, it becomes your personal guide to becoming a high-performance mentor.

The Participant?s Notebook is part of the High-Performance Mentoring Kit, which also includes over 120 minutes of professionally produced videotapes, a CD-ROM (Mac and Windows compatible) containing more than 250 slides, and a Facilitator?s Guide.