Mentoring and Coaching in Early Childhood Education

Mentoring and Coaching in Early Childhood Education
Author: Michael Gasper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2020-01-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1350100757

This book provides an introduction to the theory and practice of mentoring, coaching and supervision in the context of early childhood education and care. Written by a team of scholars from the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and the USA the book includes a range of annotated case studies to exemplify important issues from around the world. The chapters are organized around four key principles: · Embedding professional one to one support within the setting · Maximising performance and professional development · Self and collaborative reflection for leadership · Managing and leading change Topics covered include discussion of the differences and similarities between mentoring, coaching and supervision; management and leadership in early childhood settings; safeguarding and child protection. Alongside the annotated case studies each chapter also includes a summary of key points and questions for further discussion.

Developing Mentoring and Coaching Relationships in Early Care and Education

Developing Mentoring and Coaching Relationships in Early Care and Education
Author: Marilyn Chu
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2012-12-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780132658232

Developing Mentoring and Coaching Relationships in Early Care and Education is the ideal resource for anyone charged with guiding teachers as they encounter real world challenges in today's early childhood programs and can turn to this practical new resource as they work with supervisors and teacher-leaders to achieve greater professional effectiveness while bridging the gap between the vision for quality and actual practice. The book is packed with helpful reflective questions, illustrative mentoring and coaching scenarios, and ready-to-implement planning tools. The focus is on encouraging reflection on current practices in order to achieve quality programs, meet teaching standards, and promote positive outcomes for children in these times of rising standards and, in many cases, lower levels of support.

Mentor Coaching and Leadership in Early Care and Education

Mentor Coaching and Leadership in Early Care and Education
Author: Mary Nolan
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781418005849

Discusses mentoring programs in early childhood education, providing case studies and activities and covering such subjects as leadership, communication, planning, and accepting and working with change.

Mentoring and Coaching

Mentoring and Coaching
Author: Denise M. Gudwin
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2009-12-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452273103

"These two remarkable educators not only document the development of their own relationship from mentor/mentee to professional colleagues, they also draw from their own experiences, research studies, and the real voices of countless new teachers to provide an excellent, hands-on guide for perfecting the mentoring role in multicultural settings. Kudos!" —Lisa Delpit, Eminent Scholar, Executive Director Center for Urban Education and Innovation Help new teachers thrive in culturally and linguistically diverse school settings! The challenges of teaching in a culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) school, including language barriers, special needs, and teacher isolation, can be especially overwhelming for early-career teachers. This unique book on mentoring and coaching new teachers is specifically designed for multicultural school settings, although educators in all settings can benefit. The authors draw from their own experience implementing a highly successful mentoring program for new teachers in a large, urban school district. The book offers practical examples anchored in the current theoretical and research base for the professional development of novice teachers in urban as well as non-urban areas. Filled with vignettes that directly capture the real-life experiences of new teachers and their mentors, this volume: Illustrates how to develop effective teacher-to-teacher mentoring relationships Raises readers′ awareness of issues that might arise from CLD differences and facilitates more effective communication Offers reproducible resources, agendas, and other sample materials for a variety of contexts This timely and practical book helps mentors give new teachers the support they need to survive and succeed in diverse school settings.

Transformational Coaching for Early Childhood Educators

Transformational Coaching for Early Childhood Educators
Author: Constant Hine
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605546410

Transformational Coaching for Early Childhood Educators is a reflective workbook designed to help early childhood professionals strengthen their coaching skills and their ability to facilitate transformational learning in others. The goal of this program is for individuals to attain sustainable habits of self-reflection, critical thinking, problem-solving, and lifelong learning themselves, as well as the ability to intentionally facilitate others to do the same. The GROOMER Framework for Change Model™ is a mental model that offers an intentional framework to facilitate transformational lasting change. This workbook can be used by supervisors working with staff or peer-to-peer but is recommended to be used with another person to get the full benefit of transformational coaching.

Coaching with Powerful Interactions

Coaching with Powerful Interactions
Author: Judy Jablon
Publisher: National Association for the Education of Young Children
Total Pages: 268
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1938113179

This essential guide for all coaches and professionals who support the work of teachers is an interactive, enhanced eBook with 30 embedded videos that provide a total of 45 minutes of video clips. Read and hear from the authors and other coaches as they share information, guidance, reflections, and insight about coaching. Use this guide to · Learn about your coaching stance and enrich your coaching practice · Develop trusting relationships with the teachers you coach · Promote positive change in teachers’ practice

Mentoring in Schools

Mentoring in Schools
Author: Haili Hughes
Publisher: Crown House Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2021-02-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1785835459

Forewords by Professor Rachel Lofthouse and Reuben Moore. With low early career teacher retention rates and the introduction of the Department for Education's new Early Career Framework, the role of mentor has never been so important in helping to keep teachers secure and happy in the classroom. Haili Hughes, a former senior leader with years of school mentoring experience, was involved in the consultation phase of the framework's design - and in this book she imparts her wisdom on the subject in an accessible way. Haili offers busy teachers a practical interpretation of how to work with the Early Career Framework, sharing practical guidance to help them in the vital role of supporting new teachers. She also shares insights from recent trainee teachers, as well as more established voices in education, to provide tried-and-tested transferable tips that can be used straight away.

Collegial Coaching

Collegial Coaching
Author: Katie Alaniz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2021-12-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475860323

In the present age of rapidly expanding digital innovation within educational settings and beyond, professional development targeting content-focused, pedagogically-sound, results-based technology integration remains an area of tremendous need. Designed for use within early childhood through high school settings, as well as education courses at the university level, this guidebook details the Coaching CPR Method. More specifically, it explores the process of collegial coaching within school environments that focuses upon content-specific goals and objectives, aligns with sound instructional strategies, and incorporates authentic assessment opportunities to transform student learning experiences.

Critical Mentoring

Critical Mentoring
Author: Torie Weiston-Serdan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000977110

This book introduces the concept of critical mentoring, presenting its theoretical and empirical foundations, and providing telling examples of what it looks like in practice, and what it can achieve. At this juncture when the demographics of our schools and colleges are rapidly changing, critical mentoring provides mentors with a new and essential transformational practice that challenges deficit-based notions of protégés, questions their forced adaptation to dominant ideology, counters the marginalization and minoritization of young people of color, and endows them with voice, power and choice to achieve in society while validating their culture and values.Critical mentoring places youth at the center of the process, challenging norms of adult and institutional authority and notions of saviorism to create collaborative partnerships with youth and communities that recognize there are multiple sources of expertise and knowledge. Torie Weiston-Serdan outlines the underlying foundations of critical race theory, cultural competence and intersectionality, describes how collaborative mentoring works in practice in terms of dispositions and structures, and addresses the implications of rethinking about the purposes and delivery of mentoring services, both for mentors themselves and the organizations for which they work. Each chapter ends with a set of salient questions to ask and key actions to take. These are meant to move the reader from thought to action and provide a basis for discussion.This book offers strategies that are immediately applicable and will create a process that is participatory, emancipatory and transformative.