Supporting Beginning Teachers, Second Edition

New teachers are leaving the profession at an alarming rate. To help retain and develop beginning educators, professional guidance and support during their initial years in the classroom are vital. In this second edition of Supporting beginning teachers, author Tina H Boogren provides updated research and additional strategies for mentoring the newest educators. With this book’s framework designing a meaningful and comprehensive teacher mentoring program, F–12 mentors, coaches and school leaders can develop new teachers’ confidence and expertise.

Part of The classroom strategies series, this clear, highly practical guide follows the series format, first summarising key research and then translating it into recommendations for classroom practice

Readers will:

• understand the causes of high teacher turnover rates
• learn how to create a comprehensive mentoring program, designed to build new teachers’ expertise by targeting their unique needs
• review numerous strategies pertaining to four types of support – (1) physical, (2) institutional, (3) emotional and (4) instructional
• discover how to foster positive mentor–mentee relationships
• find reproducible tools, templates and reflection questions to enhance their understanding of the material.