To promote and provide effective training for new teacher mentors. To establish mentoring of new teachers as the norm in schools. To establish , through mentoring, the norms of collegiality, collaboration and continuous professional development in schools. The MLRN Position on Mentoring Every educator should be mentored in their current area of growth. Every educator should be mentoring someone else from their own base of experience.
Every new principal deserves the support and experience of an administrative mentor.
Every faculty deserves the leadership and support of teachers and administrators who have had a positive mentoring experience and who, therefore, know how to be effective mentors to the other faculty members. Every effective experienced teacher deserves the opportunity to serve as a mentor to a new teacher and to experience the satisfaction and the professional growth inherent to being a mentor. This happens because great mentoring and great teaching are the same thing. Every new teacher deserves the best mentoring support and experience available. Every student deserves a teacher who has had a positive mentoring experience and who, therefore, knows how to be an effective mentor to every student in the class.