Mentor teacher

Mentoring is considered an important activity in both teacher education and in schools. Here we try to give an overview over key mentoring skills and mentoring theories. Our primary target group is teachers who work as mentors for student teachers or newly educated teachers in school. Several of the chapters in this book will be peer reviewed. You can find updated information about the project in this blog. Below you see the different chapters we have written:

• Introduction

Mentoring in Ontario

• Induction of beginning teachers in Ontario
• Induction of beginning teachers in Toronto
• The mentor teacher in Ontario

Mentoring tools and strategies

• The first mentor-mentee meeting
• Written reflection tools in mentoring
• Observation in mentoring
• Oral reflection tools in mentoring
• To talk about the conversation in mentoring

A mother mentors her child on the ice

Theories about mentoring

• What is mentoring?
• Active listening
• Action-reflection model
• Apprenticeship model
• Systemic mentoring
• Appreciative Inquiry
• Coaching
• Dreyfus model of skill acquisition
• Knowledge Building

Relevant Wikipedia articles

• Reflective practice
• Educational Theory of Apprenticeship
• Action learning
• Sociocultural learning theories