Acknowledgements
The Concept of Teacher as Mentor
Personal Rationale: The Making of a Mentor
Professional Rationale?From Mentee to Mentor
Academic Rationale: The Mentoring Effect
Objectives and Benefits of Studying Teachers as Mentors
Significance of Examining Teachers as Mentors
Mentors, Teachers, and Schools: A Literature Review
In the Beginning: Mentoring as Myth
Definition of Mentoring
Mentoring for Diversity
Mentoring and Teaching
Approaches to Teachers? Knowledge, Life, and Work
Broadening the Role of Teacher and Teaching
The Present Context
Major Assumptions
Tell Us What You Need: A Methodology to Examine Teachers as Mentors
Qualitative Research
Data Collection
The Setting
Methodology
Participants
Data Analysis
The Vessel that Brought You: Profiles of Teachers and Students
Teacher Profiles: Primary Participants
Primary Participant Summary
Student Profiles: Secondary Participants
Secondary Participant Summary
It Rests with You: Exploring How Teachers Mentor Students
Maggie: A View from the Top
Haley: A View from down the Road
Anton: A View from the Playing Field
Rachael: A View from the Outside
Annie: A View from Student Success
Learning from Teachers Who Mentor
Strangers, Fathers, and Friends: Exploring How Students Were Mentored by Their Teachers
Tanvir: Mentoring as Continued Momentum
Amandip: Mentoring as Academic Awakening
Mohammed: Mentoring as Extra-Curricular Project
Rena: Mentoring as Conversation
Learning from Students Who Have Been Mentored
Of Build and Voice: A Critical Understanding of Mentors, Teachers, and the Literature That Describes Them
Classical Notions of a Mentor: The Absent Parent
Mentoring for Diversity: Embracing Complexity
Competence and Duration: A Foundation for Mentoring
Competence and Duration: Valued by Students
The Necessity of Mentoring
Caring through Mentoring
Reaching the Goal: Achievement, Outcomes, and Risk
Mentoring and Academic Achievement
Mentoring Outcomes: Four Possibilities
Who Is at Risk?
Teachers at Risk: Objections to Mentoring
Responding to the Changing Landscape: An Era of Vulnerability
Mentoring: Worth the Risk
Some Power Will Inspire You: Continued Momentum?Teachers as Mentors, Teaching as Mentoring
Inescapability of Mentoring
Broader Notions of Teacher and Teaching
Implications for Teacher Education
Implications for Educational Policy
Further Research
Final Thoughts
References.