Description:
This volume explores how mentoring in K-12 schools promotes the wellbeing of both mentors and mentees. It covers mental health, resilience, and emotional wellbeing. The book includes effective mentoring strategies, recommendations for teachers at different career stages, and models for nurturing wellbeing among school leaders.
Review Quotes:
Mentoring for Wellbeing in Schools shines light on wellbeing in studies of mentoring in K-12 education. This collection provides researchers, practitioners, and policymakers alike with a rich array of wellbeing in mentoring relationships-not as an add-on feature of mentorship but rather an essential aspect of mentors' support and role. As demonstrated from various perspectives, a culture of wellbeing in schools has multiple benefits for people and organizational cultures, including teacher and leader preparation. Readers, especially those concerned with the flourishing of schools in a pandemic world, will walk away better prepared to make mentoring work.- Carol A. Mullen, Virginia Tech
Effectively marshalled by Kutsyuruba and Kochan, respected international authorities on mentoring, the authors provide a wealth of examples and guidance on much-needed means of promoting wellbeing and human flourishing in schools. Given the vast number of threats and impediments to the wellbeing of students, trainee teachers, established teachers, and principals worldwide, this work is extremely timely. Arguably, it should be compulsory reading for school principals, mentors, teacher educators, mentor trainers, education researchers in these spaces, and - perhaps more importantly - anyone who holds public office and makes or has the capacity to influence decisions which impact the work of school teachers and principals. - Andrew J. Hobson, University of Brighton, UK