Mentoring New Special Education Teachers: A Guide for Mentors and Program Developers

How do you avoid the high cost of turnover and retain high-quality special education teachers in such a demanding field?

Special education teachers are leaving the field at twice the rate of general education teachers. Why? Mentoring New Special Education Teachers will help administrators and other educators develop and sustain effective mentoring programs specifically designed for special education teachers, providing practical, field-tested activities and resources for both the mentors and the mentees, including such critical elements as:

• Effectively identifying, recruiting, and selecting mentors
• Action planning
• Evaluating progress
• Addressing diminishing support
• Dealing with burnout and isolation
• Vignettes of real-life mentoring experiences
• Figures, tables, appendices, and Web sites
• A ready-to-use two-day workshop for training mentors