Mentoring is one of the foremost ways in which to accomplish the training of new teachers and retraining of mid-career teachers. However, for mentoring to succeed, school administrators need to understand the mentoring mission, which this text deals with, on a procedural level.

There is a growing consensus among parents, politicians, education reformers and educators that schools should help every child be an active and successful learner and responsible future citizen. Central to this is focusing on how to train new teachers and retrain mid-career teachers. Mentoring is one of the foremost ways in which this is accomplished. This volume seeks to help school administrators to understand the mentoring mission, on a procedural level.

The pressing need for administrators to take on a mentoring role
a vision of the competent master teacher
characteristics of the effective mentor
how administrators can assess their mentor skills
selecting and training the mentoring team
the mentoring team in action - taking steps toward building a whole-school mentoring process
making the case for school-based mentoring programmes.