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Mentoring plays a critical role in providing a quality professional experience for pre-service teachers in their initial teacher education.
There have been numerous studies about pre-service teacher mentoring, yet actual mentoring practice still remains varied and poorly understood.
Consequently, there is a need for mentoring processes that can enhance graduate teacher quality.
In response to this call, this study aims to elucidate an understanding of how mentoring is operationalized, as perceived by the teacher mentor.
Semi-structured interviews, with experienced teacher mentors, provided understanding on mentoring practices used within differing school contexts.
These findings increase our understanding of actual mentoring processes that are used during the different phases of support for the preservice teachers.
Understanding how the mentor–mentee relationship is operationalized has implications for supporting and enhancing quality mentoring experiences.
Published: 2020
Updated: Jul. 14, 2021
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This paper discusses the concept of democratic professionalism and argues that it offers a way to frame teacher education so that it can contribute to more productively managing long standing tensions between public schools, minoritized communities, and teacher preparation programs, and to more closely realizing the democratic potential of public education and teacher education.
This decolonial approach to teacher education that actively attempts to benefit from the expertise in local minoritized communities seeks to “disrupt” existing power and knowledge hierarchies and create the basis for new alliances between teachers, teacher unions, teacher educators, and community-based social movements in marginalized communities that are seeking an active role in transforming their own communities.
The result is a new hybrid structure for teacher education programs that models the emancipatory vision that is often articulated by programs but not practiced.
Published: 2020
Updated: Oct. 28, 2020
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This study explores the preservice teacher learning in the context of conversations about their field-based challenges. First, a review of the literature investigates studies that highlight the role of evidence-based conversation as a mechanism to approach the inevitable problems faced by teachers in the classroom. The subsequent case study provides an analysis of how a group of preservice teachers approached a colleague's challenge through a structured conversation and used digital videotapes and artifacts to add specificity to their analysis.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jul. 21, 2009
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The study examines how people are prepared for professional practice in the clergy, teaching, and clinical psychology. The purpose of the study is to develop a framework to describe and analyze the teaching of practice in professional education programs, specifically preparation for relational practices. : The authors have identified three key concepts for understanding the pedagogies of practice in professional education: representations, decomposition, and approximations of practice. The authors conclude that, in the program they studied, prospective teachers have fewer opportunities to engage in approximations that focus on contingent, interactive practice than do novices in the other two professions.
Published: 2009
Updated: Mar. 18, 2009
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The article discusses the disposition of preservice teachers in early childhood education. The University of Memphis created a checklist called the Early Childhood Education Behaviors & Dispositions Checklist which defines proper and improper behaviors and norms for preservice teacher dispositions.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jun. 23, 2008