Mentoring Resources

Each mentoring relationship is different, but there are some common ingredients that can help you receive the most from your mentoring experience. Check out the following links for additional resources to improve your practice, whether you are a mentor or a mentee.

Mentoring programs and Web sites

Books on Mentoring

Articles on Mentoring

Mentoring Basics

Mentoring Resources

Mentoring Q&A

Mentoring Programing

New Teacher Center

An entire section of this site is devoted to teacher induction.


NEA Foundation
Resources on creating a teacher mentoring program.
The Mentoring Leadership and Resource Network
Articles and discussions on teacher mentoring.
Teacher Mentoring Programs
Ideas on how administrators, teachers, and policy makers can help new teachers succeed.

Education World
Resources on teacher mentoring.
Education Commission of the States
Articles include “The Impact of Mentoring on Teacher Retention: What the Research Says” and “Beginning Teacher Mentoring Programs.”
Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment
A variety of resources on beginning teachers and induction.
New Imperatives for Teacher Preparation
Education Commission of the States’ paper on effective teacher preparation.

New Ways to Improve Teaching Quality
Department of Education’s promising practices.
Teacher Quality Exemplary Practices
Department of Education’s summary of 36 models of exemplary teaching practices.
Designing Support for Beginning Teachers
WestEd article on preventing teachers from dropping out of the profession. National Center for Research on


Teacher Learning

Research reports on studies about teacher education.

Books Mentoring

Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Systems for Early Career Learning
by Edward D. Britton, Lynn Paine, David Pimm, and Senta A. Raizen

A Better Beginning: Supporting and Mentoring New Teachers
by Marge Scherer

Mentoring: Developing Successful New Teachers
by Theresa M. Bey and C. Thomas Holmes

Mentoring Programs for New Teachers: Models of Induction and Support
by Susan Villani

Articles on Mentoring

“Learning from the Masters: How Teachers Help Teachers Improve Instruction”
by Kathy Checkley

“Keeping Good Teachers: Why It Matters, What Leaders Can Do”
by Linda-Darling Hammond

“Helping Novices Learn to Teach: Lessons from an Exemplary Support Teacher”
by Sharon Feiman-Nemser

“What New Teachers Need to Learn”
by Sharon Feiman-Nemser

“Mentoring New Teachers”
by Ellen Mauer and Ellyn Zimmerman

“Mentoring in the New Millenium”
by Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan

“What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future”
by National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future

“Teacher Team Develops a District Mentoring Program”
by John C. Anzul

“Designing a Mentoring Program”
by Susan M. Blair-Larsen

“Mentoring Beginning Teachers: The Case for Mentoring”
by Charlotte Danielson