Karen Weller Swanson – författare

Mentoring is for teachers across the career span! In this helpful resource, authors Karen Weller Swanson and Micki M. Caskey show how mid-career mentoring can rejuvenate your joy of teaching, plan for career progressions, and build a healthy work-life balance.The authors lay out a framework for mutual mentoring that uses a trekking metaphor and a choose-your-own-adventure style, which allows for individualized professional development focusing on topics most important to you. Through this approach, you will learn how to create a community of practice with other teachers, how to engage in dialogue about teaching and exchange ideas, methods for productively responding to challenges, and ideas for learning new skills and revising or abandoning practices. The authors also cover how to establish healthy boundaries, create a sustainable practice, and implement plans to achieve professional goals.With this book, mid-career teachers will be able to thrive in a mentoring space that creates opportunities for them to embrace innovative and collaborative practices and explore their evolving personal and teacher identities.

Mentoring is for teachers across the career span! In this helpful resource, authors Karen Weller Swanson and Micki M. Caskey show how mid-career mentoring can rejuvenate your joy of teaching, plan for career progressions, and build a healthy work-life balance.The authors lay out a framework for mutual mentoring that uses a trekking metaphor and a choose-your-own-adventure style, which allows for individualized professional development focusing on topics most important to you. Through this approach, you will learn how to create a community of practice with other teachers, how to engage in dialogue about teaching and exchange ideas, methods for productively responding to challenges, and ideas for learning new skills and revising or abandoning practices. The authors also cover how to establish healthy boundaries, create a sustainable practice, and implement plans to achieve professional goals.With this book, mid-career teachers will be able to thrive in a mentoring space that creates opportunities for them to embrace innovative and collaborative practices and explore their evolving personal and teacher identities.

Mentoring is for teachers across the career span! In this helpful resource, authors Karen Weller Swanson and Micki M. Caskey show how mid-career mentoring can rejuvenate your joy of teaching, plan for career progressions, and build a healthy work-life balance.The authors lay out a framework for mutual mentoring that uses a trekking metaphor and a choose-your-own-adventure style, which allows for individualized professional development focusing on topics most important to you. Through this approach, you will learn how to create a community of practice with other teachers, how to engage in dialogue about teaching and exchange ideas, methods for productively responding to challenges, and ideas for learning new skills and revising or abandoning practices. The authors also cover how to establish healthy boundaries, create a sustainable practice, and implement plans to achieve professional goals.With this book, mid-career teachers will be able to thrive in a mentoring space that creates opportunities for them to embrace innovative and collaborative practices and explore their evolving personal and teacher identities.

Mentoring is for teachers across the career span! In this helpful resource, authors Karen Weller Swanson and Micki M. Caskey show how mid-career mentoring can rejuvenate your joy of teaching, plan for career progressions, and build a healthy work-life balance.The authors lay out a framework for mutual mentoring that uses a trekking metaphor and a choose-your-own-adventure style, which allows for individualized professional development focusing on topics most important to you. Through this approach, you will learn how to create a community of practice with other teachers, how to engage in dialogue about teaching and exchange ideas, methods for productively responding to challenges, and ideas for learning new skills and revising or abandoning practices. The authors also cover how to establish healthy boundaries, create a sustainable practice, and implement plans to achieve professional goals.With this book, mid-career teachers will be able to thrive in a mentoring space that creates opportunities for them to embrace innovative and collaborative practices and explore their evolving personal and teacher identities.

This volume focuses on SoTL, the scholarship of teaching and learning. It discusses how collaborations among and between disciplines can strengthen education and the ways in which students are taught. The community of scholars at an institution can provide a fertile ground for interdisciplinary collaboration that can enliven the educational process and the research that supports it. The authors here come from many different disciplines where they teach and use SoTL to inform their own practice and share what they have done with others.This is the 139th volume of the quarterly Jossey-Bass higher education series New Directions for Teaching and Learning. It offers a comprehensive range of ideas and techniques for improving college teaching based on the experience of seasoned instructors and the latest findings of educational and psychological researchers.