The First Year Matters: Being Mentored.....in Action - Softcover

Radford, Carol Pelletier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205585558 ISBN 13: 9780205585557

Publisher: Pearson, 2008

Synopsis

The First Year Matters was written to be a companion to Mentoring in Action , also by Carol Pelletier.  Organized in the same month-by-month format, The First Year Matters organizes the first hectic year of teaching so that new teachers and student teachers can have a ready reference for their thoughts and journal entries.  It also provides topics of discussion for meeting with their mentor, activities for discussion, and goal setting for the coming month.  For teachers who are required to maintain a district or state portfolio for licensing, this guide can be used to demonstrate what they have been doing each month. 

 

The first year of teaching is an overwhelming experience.  Many new teachers are so busy that they overlook some of the basic skills of teaching.  Working with a teacher mentor can aid new teachers in having a sounding board for questions and someone with whom to share the experience.  Mentors are important to the success of the beginning teacher and to their continued success in the teaching profession.  Often new teachers get discouraged in their first year and give up on teaching.  This book is designed to help them through the crucial first year so they will stay in this wonderfully rewarding profession.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A one-of-a-kind resource to guide new teachers through the mentoring process!

 

The First Year Matters: Being Mentored...In Action, by Carol Pelletier Radford, provides new teachers with a practical guide to use throughout their mentoring experience as well as for self-reflection.  Many new teachers become overwhelmed in their first year of teaching and are so busy trying to meet all of the criteria of the assessments-based curriculum that the most obvious skills can be overlooked for discussion with their mentor.  Often the mentor and the teacher spend their meetings discussing one student or situation.  This book provides a month-by-month outline of the school year for new teachers so curriculum-based topics can be discussed in a more systematic way.

 

The author encourages the new teacher to become a listener and filter all of the information coming at them as a new teacher.  They can’t do everything!  This book will help them use the mentoring process as a way to get the most out of their first year of teaching without getting discouraged. 

 

Practical Tools for Novice Teachers:

• Month-by-month guide for new teachers.
• Numerous forms and practical tips to create effective mentoring meetings for both the first-year teacher and the student teacher.
• Outlines how new teachers can identify and discuss difficult issues with their mentor throughout the year.
• Effective classroom management and discipline ideas for beginning teachers.
• Lists all the INTASC Principles for quick reference to the professional standards teachers are now held accountable to.
• The completed guide serves as:
• A prompt for deeper reflections and a convenient place to record those professional reflections.
• A record of the first year of teaching and a road map for the next year.
• Documentation of their activities for professional licensing purposes.

 

Carol Pelletier Radford is currently a Program Director in the Center for University, School, and Community Partnerships at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.. Look for other books by this author:

Mentoring in Action: A Month-by-Month Curriculum for Mentors and Their New Teachers.  ISBN-10: 0-205-43898-9; ISBN-13: 978-0-205-43898-3

Strategies for Successful Student Teaching: A Comprehensive Guide, Second Edition

ISBN-10: 0-205-39682-8; ISBN-13: 978-0-205-39682-5

About the Author:

Carol Pelletier Radford is the Program Director for a Transition to Teaching federal grant, which is located in the Center for University, School and Community Partnerships at the University of Massachusetts—Dartmouth.  She received her Ed.D. from Harvard University in 1996 where she focused her studies on teacher professional development and the role of the cooperating

teacher in preparing pre-service teachers. In more than twenty years as a public school teacher, she has received numerous teacher leadership awards, among them the prestigious Christa McAuliffe Fellowship sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. She is the author of four books: Techniques and Strategies for Coaching Student Teachers, Strategies for Successful Student Teaching, Touch the Future: TEACH!, and Mentoring in Action:A Month-by-Month Curriculum for Mentors and Their New Teachers. For the past thirteen years, she has worked as the Director of Practicum Experiences and Teacher Induction at Boston College. In her current position at the University of Massachusetts, she teaches graduate courses for district mentors and is actively engaged in preparing prospective math and science teachers for New Bedford and Fall River schools.

 

Visiit carolpelletierradford.com to learn more.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0205585558
• ISBN 13: 9780205585557
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288