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Mentors
The Mentoring Leadership
and Resource Network Home Page MLRN is a grass roots effort started
by a few educators and supported, in part as a network of the ASCD. It
offers support and limited free advice to mentors and mentoring programs.
Learning
From Mentors The National Center for Research on Teacher Learning
(NCRTL) is completing its fifth year of a five-year grant from the
Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department
of Education, for the study of teacher learning. This is an analysis and
explanation of that endeavor.
Teachers
As Mentors This paper seeks to encourage teachers to mentor one
another. To do so, it explores what mentorship means, and reviews some
of the literature and research that examines its different stages, benefits
and pitfalls, and what it takes to be a good mentor.
The
Gender Politics of Mentoring "The University is all about mentoring."
So begins this thought provoking article from The Indiana University Office
for Women's Affairs.
Mentoring
Services Like any successful partnership, mentoring depends
on developing a clear understanding of the role of each participant. This
paper examines these roles in some detail.
Mentoring
Program Helps Young Faculty Feel at Home By Bruce E. Beans, professor
in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Dr. Beans is also the founder of the university's mentoring program, and
describes this process and the importance of mentoring at the university
level.
University
of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching An extensive
page of links to faculty mentoring resources and annotated bibliographies.
Very complete and extensive; some access requires University of Michigan
authentication.
Mentoring: Gains in Teaching and Leadership
The majority of faculty who work in higher education have extensive preparation in their disciplines and little education on how to teach. In addition, faculty have limited opportunities to develop leadership skills. Since we work in an environment with a mission of educating students and with an operation system of shared governance, effective teaching and leadership are critical for the institutions success. Faculty development in the form of a formalized mentoring program can provide an avenue fot eh improvement of these two skills.
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