Mentoring Mathematics Teachers in the Secondary School - A Practical Guide

This practical workbook assists school-based mentors of mathematics teachers to develop their mentoring skills, offering mentors the essential guidance needed in order to effectively support trainee or newly qualified secondary mathematics teachers, as well as in their overall career development. Offering tried and tested strategies based on research and evidence, Mentoring Mathematics Teachers covers the knowledge, skills, and understanding every mentor needs, and offers practical tools such as lesson plans and feedback sheets, observation sheets, case studies, sample dialogues, and other learning activities and exercises. Together with analytical tools for self-evaluation, this book is a vital source of support and inspiration for all those involved in developing the next generation of outstanding mathematics teachers, whether in teacher training or as newly qualified or early career teachers. Key topics explored include: -Roles and responsibilities of mentors within mathematics education, and understanding yourself as a mentor; -The mentor-mentee relationship, and helping develop a beginning teacher’s identity; -Supporting specific aspects of beginning mathematics teachers’ knowledge, skills, and understanding, including developing reflective practice, lesson planning, and mathematical misconceptions; -Strategies for observation and analysis of lessons, marking, assessment, and the use of data; -Mentoring for long-term career and teacher development. Filled with the key tools needed for the mentor’s individual development, Mentoring Mathematics Teachers offers an accessible and practical guide to mentoring trainee teachers and early-career teachers with ready-to-use strategies that support, inspire and elevate both mentors and teachers alike. This book also includes an online eResource offering downloadable resources and web-based training material.