Becoming a High-Performance Mentor
A Guide to Reflection and Action
High-performance mentors are not born that way—they need training to gain the skills and knowledge needed. As with teaching, mentors exist on a continuum from low-performing to high-performing, but can move though the developmental stages as they gain experience and reflect on prior mentoring experiences.
James Rowley's mentoring framework has been used to train thousands of mentors to develop the essential characteristics of high-performance mentoring: committing, accepting, communicating, coaching, learning, and inspiring. Mentoring can be a challenging, rewarding, and mutually satisfying experience that contributes to the personal & professional growth of each participant. Or it can be a frustrating, disappointing, and mutually unsatisfactory experience that contributes nothing to personal & professional growth.
Use this book to ensure that your mentors and mentees grow in their teaching practice as a result of the mentoring experience.
"I recommend this book to mentor program coordinators who are looking to refine the training and practice of their existing mentors. It goes deeper into the process of mentoring and reflection."
"Rowley offers substance for mentors who have already been through initial training and who now have some experience. It's also a good book for experienced mentors to use as a 'tune up' for their mentoring skills."
"This is a fabulous book! I serve as a mentor principal, but I didn't receive much training in the how-to's of being a mentor. I wish I had read this book years ago!"
"Rowley speaks with authority and integrity—authority from the perspective of being a mentor to mentors and integrity because he speaks from experience."
"The author writes with great honesty and openness to provide wonderful information about mentoring processes and tools while providing a resource rich in reflective questions surrounded by thoughtful and meaningful quotes. A wonderful and helpful resource for all principals and mentors!"
"Reading this book can be energizing, given the wide-ranging ideas and experiences that have been collected by the author during years of teaching and conducting mentor training workshops across the country. The examples feel authentic and the information provided has a 'that-makes-sense' ring to it."
"The book's how-to approach makes it very straightforward, and Rowley uses appropriate examples to illustrate the various points being made or skills being presented."
