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Leaders Helping Leaders: A Practical Guide to Administrative Mentoring

Autor John C. Daresh
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mar 2001
`This is truly a how-to book for designing and implementing a mentoring programme. John C Daresh pulls the reader in with a relaxed style and logical structure. The reader finds practical info about the possible pitfalls of starting a mentoring programme and how to deal with them. I highly recommend this book' - Frank Buck, Principal - Graham Elementary School, Talladega, Alabama

This book is designed to help school administrators, principals, and assistant principals plan and implement a structured mentoring programme to support educational leaders within a district. It includes definitions and purposes of mentoring, benefits derived from mentoring, and the kinds of training programmes available to assist school system planners in the design of local mentor preparation programmes.
A three-phase model is presented to lead the reader through initial planning, implementation, and evaluation issues. Chapters are filled with suggested issues and activities that are meant to assist readers in developing effective programmes at the local level.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780761977803
ISBN-10: 0761977805
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

"This is truly a how-to book for designing and implementing a mentoring program. Daresh pulls the reader in with a relaxed style and logical structure. The reader finds practical info about the possible pitfalls of starting a mentoring program and how to deal with them. I highly recommend this book."

Cuprins

Introduction
PART ONE: PLANNING THE MENTORING PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL LEADERS
What Is Mentoring? And Why Is It so Important?
Initial Program Development
What Is Our Purpose?
PART TWO: IMPLEMENTING YOUR PROGRAM
Who Is a Mentor?
Preparing People to Serve as Mentors
The Match Game
Now That You're a Mentor, What Do You Do?
Mentoring for Beginning Leaders
Mentoring for Veterans
PART THREE: ASSESSING YOUR PROGRAM
How Do We Know if It Worked?
What Is Next?

Notă biografică

John C. Daresh is professor of educational leadership at the University of Texas at El Paso. Over the years, he has held faculty or administrative appointments at the University of Cincinnati, The Ohio State University, the University of Northern Colorado, and Illinois State University. He has also worked as a consultant on high school reform and administrator professional development for universities, state departments of education, national and state professional associations, and individual schools and districts across the United States, and also in Barbados, Canada, France, Holland, Israel, Turkey, South Africa, and Taiwan. By far, the bulk of Daresh¿s international service has been in the United Kingdom where he served an advisor and trainer for the School Management Task Force that developed and promoted support programs for beginning headteachers, the National College for School Leadership, the Welsh Office of Education, the North West Network for Diploma Development in Cheshire, Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Lincoln, the University of Hull, CREATE Consultancies, and literally dozens of Local Education Authorities and individual schools across England and Wales.

Daresh recently completed three years of service as the lead consultant on principal mentoring programs for the Chicago Public Schools as that megadistrict was faced with the challenge of bringing in mostly inexperienced principals to serve in nearly of the school system¿s elementary and high schools.


Descriere

John C. Daresh, educational leadership expert, brings successful mentoring to educational administrators in his recently updated Leaders Helping Leaders, Second Edition. He offers a practical and up-to-date plan to pair experienced administrators with new and struggling colleagues to support continuity of leadership and create effective education. In addition to the three-phase model of planning, implementing, and assessing, this updated edition includes a special focus on promoting more diverse and multicultural schools and updated scenarios responding to critical concerns for todayÆs school administrators.'' ''