Mentoring is used in a wide range of situations in education: to assist
learning; to help weaker students or those with specific learning needs
or difficulties; to develop community or business links; to aid the
inclusion of pupils otherwise at risk of exclusion; to develop ethnic
links; to enable students to benefit from the support of their peers, to
name but a few.
The development and proliferation of mentoring and mentoring schemes in
education over the last few years has been dramatic, and presents
teachers, school managers and leaders, as well as mentors themselves
with a challenge. This book presents all mentors plus anyone working
with young people with an invaluable guide to approaches to mentoring
today. It looks at mentoring as a concept, at what mentoring is, how it
is done well and how it can be made more effective.
Written by a leading expert on mentoring, this practical and relevant
handbook is backed up throughout by inspiring and relevant case studies
and examples from schools and schemes internationally.