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Mentoring

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School-Based Mentoring: A Nurturing Approach To Improve The Educational Outcomes Of Students At-Risk, Paul Caldarella, Shauna Valentine, Drew Daniels, Barbara Quackenbush Oct 2009

School-Based Mentoring: A Nurturing Approach To Improve The Educational Outcomes Of Students At-Risk, Paul Caldarella, Shauna Valentine, Drew Daniels, Barbara Quackenbush

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Advantages of School-based Mentoring: Less costly; Identify more children; School resources, staff, administration; More convenient; Time commitment; Safety; Community support. Dubois & Karcher (2005)


School-Based Mentoring For At-Risk Elementary Students, Shauna Valentine, Gary Wall, Paul Caldarella, Lynnette Christensen, K. Richard Young, Allen Gurney Jan 2009

School-Based Mentoring For At-Risk Elementary Students, Shauna Valentine, Gary Wall, Paul Caldarella, Lynnette Christensen, K. Richard Young, Allen Gurney

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Advantages of School-based Mentoring: Less Costly; Identify More Children via the School Context; School Resources Staff Administration; More Convenient for Volunteers; Time Commitment; Mentors Feel Safer; Establish Community Support within school.


School-Based Mentoring: An Effective Intervention With Students At Risk For Ebd, Paul Caldarella, Shauna Valentine, K. Richard Young, Michael Adams Mar 2008

School-Based Mentoring: An Effective Intervention With Students At Risk For Ebd, Paul Caldarella, Shauna Valentine, K. Richard Young, Michael Adams

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EBD Students experience fewer positive outcomes, more frequent removal from class, and less academic instruction than any other group of students with disabilities; Years of academic failure and peer rejection before evaluations and diagnoses are begun. (Lane, Gresham, & O’Shaugnessy, 2002;Jolivette, Stitchter, Nelson, Scott, & Liaupsin, 2000)


School-Based Mentoring: An Effective Intervention With Students At Risk For Ebd, Paul Caldarella, Shauna Valentine, K. Richard Young, Michael Adams Nov 2007

School-Based Mentoring: An Effective Intervention With Students At Risk For Ebd, Paul Caldarella, Shauna Valentine, K. Richard Young, Michael Adams

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Relationships with non-parental adults are vital assets for positive youth development (Scales, 2003). Studies of resilience among youth from at risk backgrounds alerted scholars to protective functions that can be fulfilled by relationships with non parental adults (Werner, 1995).


School-Based Mentoring: Drawing Strength From The Community To Help At-Risk Students, Shauna Valentine, Paul Caldarella, Adam Fisher, Jennifer James, Janet Young, Michael Adams Oct 2007

School-Based Mentoring: Drawing Strength From The Community To Help At-Risk Students, Shauna Valentine, Paul Caldarella, Adam Fisher, Jennifer James, Janet Young, Michael Adams

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What is a mentor? Someone with greater wisdom or experience; Someone who offers guidance or instruction intended to facilitate growth and development; A guide, teacher, friend, tutor, advocate, motivator, role model, link to another generation.


Peaceable Schools Mentoring: A Pilot Study, Jennifer Smith, Michelle Marchant, Laura Cummings, Shauna Valentine, Janet Young, Paul Caldarella Apr 2006

Peaceable Schools Mentoring: A Pilot Study, Jennifer Smith, Michelle Marchant, Laura Cummings, Shauna Valentine, Janet Young, Paul Caldarella

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Peaceable Schools, a project of the Department of Education at BYU, is an organization that seeks to help schools make data-based decisions regarding school-wide and individual interventions for their students. Mentoring has caught the eye of Peaceable Schools because research is still in its infancy and the popularity of implementing mentoring programs is growing steadily. One of Peaceable Schools' current research questions is "What are the effects of mentoring on the social and emotional behaviors of students at-risk for emotional and behavioral disorders?"


Linking Mentoring And Electronic Portfolios For Utah Educators, Charles R. Graham, Kathleen Webb, Carol Lee Hawkins, David Harlan May 2003

Linking Mentoring And Electronic Portfolios For Utah Educators, Charles R. Graham, Kathleen Webb, Carol Lee Hawkins, David Harlan

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Starting January 2003 Utah districts are required to provide each entry level teacher with a trained mentor (EYE, 2003). Additionally, each entry level teacher will be required to create a standards-based teaching portfolio to submit to the district as part of the Level 2 licensure process. This paper provides practical information about standards-based electronic teaching portfolios and how the portfolios can be used as a vehicle for mentoring novice teachers.