21st Century Mentor's Handbook

The 21st Century Mentor's Handbook is cross-referenced to Why Didn't I Learn This in College? and Instruction for All Students. Mentors find it an indispensible tool in planning their interactions with new teachers. This handbook provides a multitude of resources including a mentoring calendar, needs assessments, tools for goal setting and reflection, instructional design templates, guidelines for observation and coaching, and field tested ways to deal with the potential problems of novice teachers.
A CD-ROM of templates is included.

This mentor's handbook, field tested by hundreds of mentors, provides a multitude of resources to help mentors promote the success and professional growth of new teachers.

Resources included are:
 New teacher tools including needs assessments, self-assessments, and goal setting and reflection formats
 Tools for peer observation and data-driven discussions
 Mentoring calendar
 Mentor responses to challenges and concerns of new teachers +Cross-references the highly acclaimed new teacher resource Why Didn't I Learn This in College?
 CD-ROM of Templates

Paula Rutherford is the author of five books, Instruction for All Students, Leading the Learning: A Field Guide for Supervision and Evaluation, Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners, Why Didn't I Learn This in College? and The 21st Century Mentor's Handbook. She co-authors an e-newsletter titled: Mentoring in the 21st Century®.

She is president of Just ASK Publications & Professional Development, established in 1989 and based in Alexandria, Virginia. She works extensively with districts as they engage in long-term systemic work to align processes such as hiring, induction, professional development, school improvement plans, and supervision and evaluation. She also leads Mentoring in the 21st Century® Institutes across the country and has developed a comprehensive Mentoring in the 21st Century® Resource Kit so that districts can replicate the Just ASK institutes and provide extensive follow-up support for mentors. Paula, committed to building in-house capacity, has also developed a New Teacher Professional Development Kit that provides over 30 hours of support for new teachers and Certified Local Trainer (CLT) programs based on Instruction for All Students, Leading the Learning, and Why Didn't I Learn This in College?

In addition to her extensive work as a consultant and trainer, Paula's professional experience includes work in regular education K-12 as a teacher of high school history and social sciences, physical education, Spanish, and kindergarten, as well as a special education teacher, coordinator of special education programs, administrator at the middle school and high school levels, and as a central office staff development specialist.

She can be reached at [email protected].