Mentoring is a key strategy for supporting educators at any stage in their careers—and for improving teacher practice. This guide is an effective, activity-based way to reflect on, practice, and sharpen your skills as a mentor, coach, or technical assistance provider, and it can be adapted to a wide variety of early care and education settings. Supporting Teachers as Learners: A Guide for Mentors and Coaches in Early Care and Education includes activities and worksheets for hands-on learning and addresses The variety of mentoring programs operating today; Understanding adult learning and development; Building strong mentor-protégé relationships and appreciating and understanding differences; Skills and strategies for effective mentoring; and Mentors as leaders and learners. This book is published by the American Federation of Teachers Education Foundation.

Supporting Teachers as Learners: A Guide for Mentors and Coaches in Early Care and Education

Education & Teaching

Bellm, Dan

Whitebook, Marcy

Schools & Teaching

Redleaf Press

By a Thread: How Child Care Centers Hold on to Teachers, How Teachers Build Lasting Careers

Whitebook and Sakai examine how child care programs and their staff subsist in a field characterized by low pay, low status, and high turnover, and what the impacts of these factors are on the quality of child care provided. Their study is based on an in-depth survey of 75 mid-size, relatively high-quality child care centers located in an economically thriving region. They collect data on salaries, training, and educational background for all teaching staff employed at the centers at three points in time—1994, 1996, and 2000. These data provide a detailed picture of the entire teaching workforce at the 75 centers in 2000 and allow a comparison of the workforce in that year to those in 1994 and 1996. This inside look paints a disturbing picture of a dedicated yet poorly paid, high-turnover workforce. 
Part I of the book focuses on staff departures and center quality. In it, Whitebook and Sakai relate the types and magnitude of turnover occurring among teachers at child care centers to the level of quality provided there. They present empirical evidence on the correlation between center quality and staff stability as well as the perspectives of teachers and directors in their survey who reflect on the challenge of attaining and maintaining high-quality care. 
In Part II, Whitebook and Sakai rely on in-depth, quantitative evidence to examine the experience of child care employment. They point out interesting relationships between the characteristics of the child care workforce and those who have chosen to leave, stay, or join on. They then discuss work and family decisions that impact child care workers' career decisions, including the rewards listed by workers as reasons they remain employed in child care. The authors conclude with three policy recommendations that echo the suggestions made to them by the teaching staff and directors interviewed in their survey.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sakai, Laura

Social Sciences

W E Upjohn Inst for

Whitebook and Sakai examine how child care programs and their staff subsist in a field characterized by low pay, low status, and high turnover, and what the impacts of these factors are on the quality of child care provided. Their study is based on an in-depth survey of 75 mid-size, relatively high-quality child care centers located in an economically thriving region. They collect data on salaries, training, and educational background for all teaching staff employed at the centers at three points in time—1994, 1996, and 2000. These data provide a detailed picture of the entire teaching workforce at the 75 centers in 2000 and allow a comparison of the workforce in that year to those in 1994 and 1996. This inside look paints a disturbing picture of a dedicated yet poorly paid, high-turnover workforce. Part I of the book focuses on staff departures and center quality. In it, Whitebook and Sakai relate the types and magnitude of turnover occurring among teachers at child care centers to the level of quality provided there. They present empirical evidence on the correlation between center quality and staff stability as well as the perspectives of teachers and directors in their survey who reflect on the challenge of attaining and maintaining high-quality care. In Part II, Whitebook and Sakai rely on in-depth, quantitative evidence to examine the experience of child care employment. They point out interesting relationships between the characteristics of the child care workforce and those who have chosen to leave, stay, or join on. They then discuss work and family decisions that impact child care workers' career decisions, including the rewards listed by workers as reasons they remain employed in child care. The authors conclude with three policy recommendations that echo the suggestions made to them by the teaching staff and directors interviewed in their survey.

This book is a new teaching tool for mentors and mentor trainers in center based and family child care programs. The curriculum addresses, The goals and principles of mentoring programs: best methods for peer coaching and other mentoring skills, How to build strong mentor/prote'ge' relationships, respect for diversity in early childhood settings, mentors as leaders and advocates for quality early care and education and much more. Tub 36

The Early Childhood Mentoring Curriculum: A Handbook for Mentors

Hnatiuk, Patty

Gryphon House

The Early Childhood Mentoring Curriculum is a comprehensive, flexible new teaching tool for mentors and mentor trainers in center-based and family child care programs. The two-volume set includes a Trainer's Guide and a Handbook for Mentors, with activity sheets, handouts and supplementary readings. The Curriculum addresses: (a) The goals and principles of mentoring programs; (b) Best methods for peer coaching and other mentoring skills; (c) How to build strong mentor/protégé relationships; (d) Respect for diversity in early childhood settings; (e) Mentors as leaders and advocates for quality early care and education.

The Early Childhood Mentoring Curriculum: Trainer's Guide

Book by Whitebook, Marcy, Bellm, Dan

Taking on Turnover: An Action Guide for Child Care Center Teachers and Directors

Natl Center for Early Childhood

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Supporting Teachers as Learners: A Guide for Mentors and Coaches in Early Care and Education

By a Thread: How Child Care Centers Hold on to Teachers, How Teachers Build Lasting Careers

By a Thread: How Child Care Centers Hold on to Teachers, How Teachers Build Lasting Careers

The Early Childhood Mentoring Curriculum: A Handbook for Mentors

The Early Childhood Mentoring Curriculum: Trainer's Guide

Taking on Turnover: An Action Guide for Child Care Center Teachers and Directors