India J. Podsen is Professor of Middle/Secondary Education at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega, Georgia. Formerly the Director of the Georgia State University's Principal Center, Dr. Podsen served as a middle school administrator and teacher for more than 15 years. Dr. Podsen helped in designing and currently coordinates the Education Specialist Program in Teacher Leadership at NGCSU. She developed the Teacher Mentor Training Guide in her work with local schools to train teacher mentors for the state's Teacher Support Specialist Endorsement Program.

Bobbie Krause currently serves as Director of an Even Start Literacy Program in the Gainesville City and Hall County School Districts in Georgia. Formerly Georgia's Educator in Residence with the Georgia Professional Standards Commission and a Division Director with a Georgia Regional Education Service Agency (RESA), Ms. Krause served as an elementary and high school principal and teacher for more than 22 years. As an Adjunct Professor with North Georgia College & State University, Ms. Krause supervised Post-Baccalaureate teacher candidates. In collaboration with Dr. Podsen, she developed the Teacher Mentor Training Guide while assisting local school systems to increase the number of certified teacher mentors in K-12 schools through the Georgia Teacher Support Specialist Endorsement Program.

COMMENTS ABOUT THE TRAINING GUIDE FROM TEACHERS AND STAFF DEVELOPERS The training materials are excellent. Very thorough. Everything I need to prepare and train teacher mentors in my school system. If you write any other training guides, pass them on. The organization of the materials and the guided scripts were exceptionally useful. If the training guide had anything else, I don't know what it could be. Everything was there for me-script, overheads, and handouts. Training modules are wonderful. Lots of current information offered in a very user friendly format. The Training Guide taught me how to present more effectively and efficiently. This Training Guide includes a wealth of information for each module with detailed references. Each module is organized in a way that a facilitator would be very comfortable with.