Are new teachers at your school assigned a mentor?
by Sara Bernard
June 27, 2007
One question [2] in our 2007 Readers’ Survey asked what would do the most to prevent new-teacher burnout. “Mentoring” turned up as the number-one response. New teachers need dedicated veteran educators, respondents said, to guide them through those rocky first years. Do you agree? Is mentoring gaining the cachet survey respondents suggest it should?
Links:
[1] http://www.edutopia.org/sara-bernard
[2] http://www.edutopia.org/keep-new-teachers-burning-out-2007
[3] http://www.edutopia.org/node/4500/results
[4] http://www.edutopia.org/guiding-lights
[5] http://www.edutopia.org/learn-masters
[6] http://www.edutopia.org/good-mentor
[7] http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2007/06/24/news/metro/1b96c325da5ec77286257304000ecae5.txt
[8] http://www.nea.org/mentoring/resbene050603.html