This case study approach to mentoring covers many of the common challenges faced by mentors in secondary schools. The book provides trainee mentors and their tutors with the opportunity to experience mentoring challenges and problems in a safe learning environment. This resource will help trainee mentors to move up the learning curve more rapidly by identifying and practicing key mentoring skills and techniques. The key skills and techniques include: Professionalism;Inter-personal skills; Communication skills; Problem-solving and decision-making under pressure. Although some of the case studies are concerned with pedagogical issues, others deal with those very difficult inter-personal matters including, for example, a clash of values /beliefs or personality conflicts which undermine professional progress and challenge professional integrity and management skills
Language
English
Pages
102
Format
Hardcover
Release
June 17, 2005
ISBN 13
9781844450268
Developing as a Secondary School Mentor: A Case Study Approach for Trainee Mentors and Their Tutors
This case study approach to mentoring covers many of the common challenges faced by mentors in secondary schools. The book provides trainee mentors and their tutors with the opportunity to experience mentoring challenges and problems in a safe learning environment. This resource will help trainee mentors to move up the learning curve more rapidly by identifying and practicing key mentoring skills and techniques. The key skills and techniques include: Professionalism;Inter-personal skills; Communication skills; Problem-solving and decision-making under pressure. Although some of the case studies are concerned with pedagogical issues, others deal with those very difficult inter-personal matters including, for example, a clash of values /beliefs or personality conflicts which undermine professional progress and challenge professional integrity and management skills