Mentoring Teachers

In an article in Developing People (part of the Art of Leadership series), Marcy Whitebook and Dan Bellm offer a set of core principles to use when mentoring early childhood teachers. Here are a few:

• The growth and development of children, and of adults, in early childhood settings are vitally linked.
• Like children, most adults learn best by having practical, job-related, hands-on opportunities to apply new ideas and information to real-life situations…
• The first years of teaching are an especially important time for learning and growing, but effective mentoring can occur at any stage of an educator’s career…
• In order to be most effective, a mentor should be trained as one…
• Mentoring is not the same as supervision.
• A mentor is also a learner, and needs support, both as a teacher and as a learner.

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