Mentoring in Action: A Month-by-Month Curriculum for Mentors and Their New Teachers - Softcover

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Carol Pelletier Radford

is the Program Director for a Transition to

Teaching federal grant, which is located in the Center for University, School

and Community Partnerships at the University of Massachusetts―Dartmouth.

She received her Ed.D. from Harvard University in 1996 where she focused her

studies on teacher professional development and the role of the cooperating

teacher in preparing pre-service teachers. In more than twenty years as a public

school teacher, she has received numerous teacher leadership awards, among

them the prestigious Christa McAuliffe Fellowship sponsored by the U.S.

Department of Education. She is the author of four books: Techniques and

Strategies for Coaching Student Teachers, Strategies for Successful Student

Teaching, Touch the Future: TEACH!, and Mentoring in Action:A Month-by-

Month Curriculum for Mentors and Their New Teachers. For the past thirteen

years, she has worked as the Director of Practicum Experiences and Teacher

Induction at Boston College. In her current position at the University of

Massachusetts, she teaches graduate courses for district mentors and is actively

engaged in preparing prospective math and science teachers for New Bedford

and Fall River schools.

Visiit carolpelletierradford.com to learn more.

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A one-of-a-kind resource to facilitate the mentoring process!

Mentoring is one of the fastest-growing areas of teacher development. It is essential to teacher retention in an age of teacher shortages and teacher recruitment.

Mentoring in Action walks mentors and their partners through a full school year of exercises addressing everything from lesson planning to behavior management. This book outlines how to identify and discuss difficult issues as mentors work together with their beginning teachers throughout the year.

Features include:

• A month-by-month guide for both mentors and the new teachers they guide.
• Numerous forms and practical tips for creating mentoring meetings with both the new teacher and the student teacher.
• Classroom management and discipline ideas for beginning teachers.