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In this article, the authors present a technology-based innovation called eSupervision, a student teaching supervision program created to improve the field experience by using cognitive apprenticeship as a framework for its design. The authors analyze program implementation to determine whether eSupervision functions as it was designed. The results of this study indicate that building a technology-enhanced supervision experience around the framework of cognitive apprenticeship is a viable and productive approach to re-imagining the field experience of student teachers.
Published: 2011
Updated: Sep. 14, 2011
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The goal of this study is to investigate the process of coaching a mentor of experienced teachers. In particular, the authors sought to determine if coaching would help a mentor to compare her espoused beliefs about mentoring to her mentoring behaviors and possibly resolve any dissonance. The mentor experienced cognitive dissonance on several occasions during the coaching conferences when she discovered her use of directive behaviors in some interactions with mentees. Eventually, the mentor resolved this dissonance, primarily by changing her beliefs about mentoring and shifting from a nondirective to an eclectic platform.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jul. 26, 2011
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The purpose of this article is to make a contribution to the neglected area of study of mentor training by presenting some examples of innovative practical techniques designed to link theory with practice. The authors' experiences suggest that mentoring presents an opportunity to reevaluate teaching practices in collaboration with a mentee, as well as within a supportive community of fellow mentor teachers, thereby contributing to ongoing learning and development.
Published: 2011
Updated: Jul. 17, 2011
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The purpose of this paper was to investigate the views of university students serving as mentors in high‐need high schools or community centers. The participants were 49 students, primarily undergraduates across a range of liberal arts disciplines, who were participating in a university‐based service‐learning mentoring program for youth attending high‐poverty high schools.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jul. 05, 2011
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The current paper elaborates a narrative inquiry journey between a novice pretenured professor and an experienced tenured professor from 2005 to 2009 to illustrate collaborative mentorship. The authors examine the importance of storied inquiry in studying mentoring. In addition, the authors describe how their narrative journey as collaborators informed their relationship and respective understandings of the tenure process.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jul. 05, 2011
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This study focuses on seven mentor teachers who have mentored one-three years in peer placements to provide a textured understanding of their perceptions and experiences. Results indicate: (a) peer collaboration provides important pedagogical scaffolding that helps student teachers plan and implement complex pedagogies; and (b) peer-mentor observation helps student teachers feel more efficacious about their developing practice.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jun. 13, 2011
157
This article provides a conceptual framework for university supervisors. The author uses care, thoughtfulness, and tact as a conceptual framework. The author argues for an interactive and responsive pedagogy of field-based teacher education grounded in the university supervisor's concern for the development of the student teacher.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jun. 13, 2011
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The current study examines the author's work with four graduate Teaching Assistants (TAs) as they joined her to teach a graduate course at San Francisco State University. The author sought the Teaching Assistants' perspective on how to improve instruction in a course students consistently described as highly rigorous. To understand how she provided mentorship, the author looks at the work she and the TAs did together to plan and teach the course and at the TAs' response to this work. The findings demonstrate that students still found course demands to be quite high.
Published: 2010
Updated: Feb. 13, 2011
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The goal of this review was to summarize studies that examined the effects of coaching on improvements in preservice and in-service teachers' implementation of evidence-based practices. The authors identified a total of 13 studies from the 20 years of literature they searched. The results show that coaching improved the extent to which teachers accurately implement evidence-based practices in classrooms or practicum settings. The article suggests implications for preservice and in-service teacher education.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jan. 23, 2011
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This article is an analysis of peer mentors, their interaction with students and instructors, the relationships that develop, and understanding the role of peer mentors in and out of the classroom. The mentor program was created in 1990 at a large public university in the western United States as a mentor leadership program under the premise of students helping students. In this study, the authors found that peer mentors identify with five roles of a peer mentor: connecting link, peer leader, learning coach, student advocate, and trusted friend. The authors conclude that two components were found in this study that offer avenues for future research. First, the amount of time in the program can affect responses. Second, gender makes a difference.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jan. 04, 2011