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.

Parents, politicians, education reformers, and educators are in agreement that schools should help every child be an active and successful learner and responsible future citizen. Central to this outcome is a focus on how to train new teachers and retrain mid-career teachers. Mentoring is one of the foremost ways in which this can be accomplished. This book will help school administrators to understand the mentoring mission.