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ERIC Number: EJ1283652
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Dec
Pages: 4
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0276-928X
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Mentors Make a Difference
Manning, Tom; Bouffard, Suzanne
Learning Professional, v41 n6 p20-23 Dec 2020
In 2016, the Louisiana Department of Education selected Learning Forward to design and facilitate a mentor teacher training program that provided expert teachers across the state with tools and skills to more effectively support teachers in their systems through their first three years of teaching. This three-year partnership was completed in February 2020, with more than 1,600 mentor teachers participating. The focus of the mentor training program reflected the three core areas of effective mentoring: diagnosing teacher needs, developing coaching skills to meet those needs and improve mentees' planning and teaching skills, and measuring progress. Results from the program showed that over all cohorts from 2017 to 2020, 95% of participating mentors reported feeling "prepared and confident to mentor resident and novice teachers." Mentors indicated seeing improvements in student performance, their mentoring capacity, and their own instructional practices as a result of applying and sharing what they learned in the mentor teacher program.
Learning Forward. 504 South Locust Street, Oxford, OH 45056. Tel: 800-727-7288; Fax: 513-523-0638; e-mail: office@learningforward.org; Web site: https://learningforward.org/the-learning-professional/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Louisiana
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