TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burley, Suzanne.
AU  -  Pomphrey, Cathy.
TI  - Mentoring and coaching in schools: collaborative professional learning inquiry for teachers 
SN  - 9780415563635
U1  - 371.102 BUR 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  -  Routledge
KW  -  Mentoring in education
KW  - United States
KW  - Teaching teams
KW  - Teachers
KW  -  In-service training
KW  -  United States
N1  - Includes index
N2  - Can mentoring and coaching really improve professional practice? How can research and inquiry improve mentoring and coaching practice?

Mentoring and Coaching in Schools explores the ways in which mentoring and coaching can be used as a dynamic collaborative process for effective professional learning. It demonstrates how the use of practitioner inquiry within mentoring and coaching relationships in schools results in professional learning which is both transformative and empowering for teachers.

The book sets out a new model for mentoring and coaching which is centred on a process of critical inquiry and shows teachers how they can use this model to carry out their own collaborative inquiries. Features include:

reflective questions, guidelines, task and templates to help collect evidence and evaluate inquiries
detailed case studies focusing on teachers at different stages in their career
practical guidance on carrying out practitioner inquiry and research
an analysis of learning outcomes resulting from different coaching and mentoring relationships.
This timely text will be valuable reading for coaches and mentors in secondary schools, teachers undertaking continuing professional development and students on coaching and mentoring courses
ER  -