Starting a Mentoring Program
| R = research, N = news, I = information, W = white or policy papers | |
| Getting started | |
| I Coach2Coach: Mentoring Training Modules from North Carolina. | Mentoring modules by content area, and by INTASC Standard. [For more on the standards, see the CCSSO INTASC web site.] |
| I, R Creating a Teacher Mentoring Program | NEA News Publication guide from the NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education; with research references. |
| I Mentoring, from ASCD. | A short tutorial packed with research, text and video clips. |
| I What is a mentor? from Minnesota State University | What mentors are, and goals. |
| I Reflections: What Constitutes a Good Mentoring Relationship? from the George Lucas Educational Foundation (1999). | This is part of a larger Mentoring site, with research links, strategies and resources, a library with videoclips (the videoclip examples require Quicktime 5 or above). See also: The Good Mentor and The Meaning of Mentoring. |
| I Santa Cruz New Teacher Project (SCNTP). | A full menu of training and training packets, publications (articles and PowerPoint presentations) and videos. |
| I Some Tentative Mentoring Program Standards (1996) from the The Mentor Network (supported by funding from ASCD). |
Suggests: a) Mentoring Incentives, b) Mentor Training (a day-by-day schedule), c) Mentor Selection and Matching, and d) Standards and Benchmarks. |
| I A New Teacher Mentoring Knowledge Base of Best Practices from a consultant. | A Summary of Lessons Learned From Practitioners |
| I, R Supporting Beginning Teachers: How Administrators, Teachers and Policymakers Can Help New Teachers Succeed (2001), from Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL). | A multipart extensive web site which can be downloaded as a pdf document. Sections include Benefits of Providing Quality Support for New Teachers, Implementing a Formal Program for Beginning Teachers, Considerations for Policymakers, Northwest Sampler (states and districts in the northwest), State Organized Programs, and much more. |
| Mentoring Supports/Mentoring in Action | |
| I Teacher to Teacher | Discussion board of mentoring and experiences with mentoring. |
| I Teachers Helping Teachers from (SEDL), 2000. | A program for mentoring of technology literacy, by the University of Texas at El Paso. |
| I Urban Superintendents Mentor New Colleagues | An intensive program at Harvard University immerses students in the challenges of the urban superintendency. |
| I Mighty Mentor from Teaching.com. | An online mentor support. Mentors and mentees to search for each other based on grade(s) taught, subject(s) taught, and location. |
| Chatboard from Teachers.net | Check out the chat in Beginning, Substitute and Student teachers; and add a message, too. |
