High-Performance Mentoring Kit provides experienced teachers with everything needed to be effective mentors to their first-year teachers. Field-tested for 3 years, it provides the information, organization, materials, and confidence to provide ongoing professional development.



Facilitator's Guide


This comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide provides clear instructions to ensure your workshop is a success. You'll find detailed descriptions of 25 individual workshop modules, including training objectives, materials needed, and recommended instructional strategies.





The book covers:


- How to plan and promote your workshop


- How to facilitate a successful workshop


- How to select, match, support, and assess mentor teachers


- How to involve site administrators and encourage their support





Videotapes


Important issues are addressed by first-year and experienced teachers, experienced mentors, and administrators in four professionally produced videotapes. Short video clips are individually titled and arranged in the order that they appear in the workshop agenda. Included are problem-solving video case studies of conferences involving a mentor and mentee, and classroom teaching episodes with real students. Totaling over 120 minutes of programming, the clips are an important part of the training program. Stopping points are indicated on the videotapes to allow facilitators to lead group discussions on the topics addressed.





CD-ROM with PowerPoint (R) Slides


More than 250 slides supporting this training program are provided on the CD-ROM, which is Mac and Windows compatible. You may also print the slides, then reproduce them as transparencies for overhead projection. Step-by-step instructions explaining how to download and use PowerPoint (R) Viewer are included with the CD-ROM.





Participant's Notebook


The notebook contains copies of all PowerPoint (R) slides, formatted for easy note taking during training. The notebook also contains all handouts needed during the training. The complete text is included on the CD-ROM; simply print the necessary files to create copies for use in all your workshops.