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Being Mentored
A Guide for Proteges
- Hal Portner - Educational Consultant, Texas
July 2002 | 96 pages | Corwin
`This is the best book on how to ask for help and search out opportunities if you want to be an effective teacher' - Harry K Wong, Author, The First Days of Schools: How to Be An Effective Teacher , Wong Publications Inc 1991
Being Mentored is written for both potential teachers and mentors. It is a reference guide containing thought-provoking activities and opportunities for applying its principles to the reader's needs. The book offers suggestions for action and includes multiple resources of special interest to new teachers. Author Hal Portner, an experienced educator and mentor, covers each stage of the mentoring process from induction to reflection.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
1. Participate
2. Take Responsibility
3. Observe
4. Ask
5. Chart Your Course
6. Network
7. Take Informed Risks
8. Reflect
9. Give Back
Resource A: Internet Sites and Publications for New Teachers
Resource B: Professional Education Organizations and Their Web Pages
Resource C: Chatboard Exchange on the Internet
References
"This is the best book on how to ask for help and search out opportunities if you want to be an effective teacher."
The First Days of School: How to Be An Effective Teacher
"Being Mentored: A Guide for Protégés, is especially unique. Most books related to mentoring address the mentors or the mentoring program instead of the mentee."