Best Practices in Mentoring for Teacher and Leader Development - 9781681232997

Best Practices in Mentoring for Teacher and Leader DevelopmentAuthor(s): Linda J. Searby, Susan K. Brondyk\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781681232997, 978-1681232997\nSynopsis\nMentoring in educational contexts has become a rapidly growing field of study, both in the United States and internationally (Fletcher & Mullen, 2012). The prevalence of mentoring has resulted in the mindset that everyone thinks they know what mentoring is, and there is an intuitive belief that mentoring works (Eby, Rhodes, & Allen, 2010, p. 7). How do we know that mentoring works? In this age of accountability, the time is ripe for substantiating evidence through empirical research, what mentoring processes, forms, and strategies lead to more effective teachers and administrators within P-12 contexts.\n\nThis book is the sixth in the Mentoring Perspectives Series, edited by Dr. Frances Kochan former Dean of the Colle: