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How can a new teacher badly in need of mentoring get what he or she needs in the way of help and mentoring, without appearing incompetent? If your assigned mentor has a philosophy of handling kids that is more about her convenience than it is for helping kids, what do I do? My philosophy is so completely different.
Hal Portner In preventive maintainance terms, the short answer is 1) select mentors carefully, 2) train them thoroughly, 3) assign them appropriately, 4) provide peer, administrative and system support, and train new teachers how to be mentored.

In here-and-now terms, 1) both need to recognize that being new to teaching implies a degree of "imcompete...See More
Mar 24, 2010
Sara On 3/24/10, practical idealist wrote: > How can a new teacher badly in need of mentoring get what > he or she needs in the way of help and mentoring, without > appearing incompetent? If your assigned mentor has a > philosophy of handling kids that is more about her > convenience than it is for helping kids, what do I do? My > phil...See More
Mar 29, 2010


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