Mentorship Strategies in Teacher Education

Mentorship Strategies in Teacher Education

Kenan Dikilitas, Enisa Mede, Derin Atay

Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 347

ISBN13: 9781522540502|ISBN10: 1522540504|EISBN13: 9781522540519

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4050-2

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Mentoring in teacher education has been a key issue in ensuring the healthy development of teacher learning. Variety in the actualization of mentoring can lead to the exposition of new qualities and the evolving roles that mentors might undertake.

Mentorship Strategies in Teacher Education provides emerging research on international educational mentoring practices and their implementation in teacher education. While highlighting topics such as e-mentoring, preservice teachers, and teacher program evaluation, this publication explores the implementations and implications that inform the existing practices of teacher education mentoring. This book is a vital resource for researchers, educators, and practitioners seeking current research on the understanding and development of existing mentorship strategies in a variety of fields and disciplines.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership (AEMAL) Book Series

Preface

Chapters

Mentoring in Pre-Service Context

Chapter 1

Mentoring of Pre-Service Teachers: Pre-Service Teacher Mentoring (pages 1-18)

Vimbi Petrus Mahlangu

This chapter uses a qualitative research approach. It follows an interpretive constructionist paradigm. This approach emphasizes the idea that human knowledge is a human construct, and the chapter examines the world of lived...

Chapter 2

Mentoring Elementary Education Teacher Candidates in the Instructional Design and Lesson Planning Process (pages 19-36)

Drew Polly, Laura K. Handler, Eugenia B. Hopper, Ian C. Binns

Out of the myriad skills and knowledge expected for teacher candidates to develop prior to becoming a full-time teacher, the process of designing instruction and planning lessons and units is one of the most critical. In this...

Chapter 3

Mentoring Dispositions for Pre-Service and Early Career Special Educators Through Service Learning (pages 37-76)

Michelle Chamblin, Audra Cerruto, Rickey Moroney, Patricia Mason

Service learning projects were created and implemented by faculty in the special education unit at Molloy College for pre-service and early career special education teachers. The service learning projects provided an opportunity for...

Chapter 4

Mentoring University Preparatory Students Through World Englishes (WEs)-Integrated Courses (pages 77-96)

Ahmet Cihat Kapçık, Ali Öztüfekçi, Aybüke Demet Ören, Ayten Kaplan, Çiğdem Yılmaz Uzunkaya, Enisa Mede

The increasing number of non-native English speakers in the world has led to the use of varieties of English. Nowadays, the number of speakers of English in the expanding circle has exceeded the number of speakers in the outer and...

Mentoring in In-Service Contexts

Chapter 5

Teacher Liaison In-Service Training Through Mentorship (pages 98-111)

Itumeleng Innocentia Setlhodi

Teachers who are charged with the role of collaborating learners' affairs require guidance and support for effectively discharging their responsibilities. However, their initial training does not empower them to handle this...

Chapter 6

E-Mentoring (pages 112-135)

Mahvish Ponum, Sumbal Samad, Rukhshanda Ramzan

With the advent of computer networks, e-mentoring becomes feasible and indispensable to enlighten protégés. E-mentoring comes into play where conventional mentoring is unable to assist students, if they are unable to reach at...

Chapter 7

Empowering Professional and Ethical Competence on Reflective Teaching Practice in Digital Era (pages 136-152)

Miftachul Huda, Kamarul Shukri Mat Teh

In the last decade, the reflective teaching practice has been considered to look at program and planning which should be taken into action. However, the digital era has shifted teaching practice from direct interaction to virtual...

Chapter 8

Investigating the Impacts of a Mentoring Model on Experienced EFL Teachers at Tertiary Level (pages 153-169)

Gulcin Cosgun, Derin Atay

In teacher education programs, mentoring is generally regarded as a major component of the practicum of preservice teachers; mentors guide the development of preservice teachers and evaluate their readiness to teach independently....

Chapter 9

Are You Visiting or Do You Live Here?: How Novice Teachers Use Social Media to Form “Secret Communities” of Peer Mentorship and Professional Practice (pages 170-181)

Rebecca J. Blankenship

In order for the twenty-first century teacher to acquire the necessary professional skills to effectively instruct today's digitally native students, institutional constraints must be lifted such that the institution does not...

Chapter 10

Integrating Mentees in Mentoring Activities (pages 182-196)

El-Hussein A. Y. Aly

This chapter investigates the effect of integrating mentees in mentors' activities. After introducing a new curriculum followed by induction and mentoring program, few instructors were not able to cope with the change. They were...

Chapter 11

Utilization of Reflective Strategies by Mentors in the Student Teacher Mentoring Program (STMP) in a Selected Province in Zimbabwe (pages 197-211)

Edson Zikhali, Joyce Tsungai Zikhali

In Zimbabwe, teacher training is a joint endeavor between teachers' colleges and host schools, with the latter relying on mentors in training student teachers during teaching practice (TP). This chapter explores how mentors'...

Chapter 12

Zooming Into Mentor-Mentee Relationship to Explore Mentoring Strategies (pages 212-224)

Bahar Gün

Motivated by the need to develop a clearer picture of mentoring, this chapter aims to zoom into the pivotal role of the “relationship” aspect in ensuring effective mentoring and what the good mentor attributes are. The chapter...

Chapter 13

The Role of the Mentor (pages 225-234)

Chris Farrell

This chapter focuses on the role of the mentor the context of a modern language institution. It looks at two strands of mentorship: within the organization and while interacting with the wider ELT world. In the first context the...

Chapter 14

The Leadership Competencies of Teacher Mentors as a Factor of Education of Leadership Competencies in Students (pages 235-255)

Aelita Skarbalienė

In recent years there has been more and more research done concerning the preparation of students for leadership. Although the significance of practical activity and mentorship has been emphasized, the lack of research has been felt...

Chapter 15

The Role of Principals as Mentors in Mentoring Deputy Principals (pages 256-274)

Shuti Steph Khumalo

The theory of mentoring is pertinent to the education system and school leadership. School leadership has been a contested space in research. Empirical evidence indicates that there is a correlation between great school leadership...

Chapter 16

Educational Institutions: Politics and Power Games Types, Educational Change, and Enhancing Organizational Culture (pages 275-283)

Vasiliki Manoli

Through the use of different political games, power items of the typology of French and Raven, and leadership style, the leader has to make the right educational decision. When the school is shaken by internal and external conflicts...

Chapter 17

Design and Implementation of Mentoring Programs (pages 284-296)

Hale Sucuoğlu

It is hard to mention a single type of mentoring since every mentoring process might have different needs and purposes. Mentor and mentee should come together and determine the needs and goals for designing a mentoring program. This...

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