Teacher Mentoring

Are you in your early years of teaching? Or perhaps you recently changed schools and find yourself uncertain for the first time in years?
Working within educational learning support communities for over thirty years has underscored for me how central to student learning are effective classroom management and a positive teacher/student relationship. To support teachers as they build their classroom culture, I have contributed as a teacher mentor within my schools as well as leading teacher training workshops for the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS), programs throughout the Northeast United States, and as far removed as Croatia and Abu Dhabi. Much of this work is captured in a book I co-authored with my colleague, Richard Eyster, Successful Classroom Management: Real-World, Time-Tested Techniques for the Most Important Skill Every Teacher Needs, published by Sourcebooks.

Mentoring teachers is my personal commitment to teaching and learning. From my learning specialist vantage point, I offer perspectives and strategies that can make the difference between success and failure for students with learning differences and that readily enhance the educational experience for all students in a classroom. Simple additions to a teacher's routines such as the use of an agenda or the development of explicit procedures for repeated routines, while essential for some students, serve to create structure, predictability, and a safe learning environment for all students.

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