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This study aimed to examine how coteaching provided professional development to the cooperating teachers. The findings illustrate multiple ways that cooperating teachers experienced meaningful, authentic professional development within a coteaching context. The authors found that day-to-day interactions between the coteachers fostered on-going discussion and reflection on practice, introduced new curricular resources, increased interactions across classrooms, and stimulated cooperating teachers to extend their roles as school leaders and teacher educators.
Published: 2017
Updated: Dec. 13, 2018
This study aimed to explore the mentoring experience within the context of a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) specific mentoring program for urban, at risk, high school youth. The authors found that a common theme that touched on all PAMI constructs was that communication with scholars was crucial to success. Specifically, they argue that communication impacted the relationship emphasis, the facilitative focus, the confrontive focus, and mentor modeling.
Published: 2015
Updated: Nov. 21, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the specific needs of students and junior faculty in counseling programs and to provide a glimpse of the mentorship experience through the lens of the mentee. The authors found that both master’s and doctoral level, and junior faculty alike suggested that a mentor should have certain characteristics, such as being approachable, having a personal style of mentoring, being encouraging, and providing clear and direct feedback to the mentee.
Published: 2015
Updated: Nov. 15, 2018
This article aims to reflect on the experiences and challenges of a mentor, which brought about by subject-specific mentoring within mathematics for English as a second language (ESL) classes for 16-18-year-olds. This article has provided a mentor’s perspective on the enactment of mentoring in a specific context. The author has demonstrated how specific guidance in the mentoring literature may be enacted and provided support. Furthermore, the author emphasized the importance of mentors’ and mentees’ attention to the detail of the particular context, notably – in this case – the issues faced by ESL learners of mathematics in post-compulsory education in England.
Published: 2017
Updated: Nov. 01, 2018