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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Mentor Teachers"”.
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Perceptions of Mentor Teachers in a Professional Development School
… K-12 schools, the program aims at preparing new teachers, promoting the professional development of practicing teachers, and improving student performance through the application of inquiry-based practices. This study examined the perceptions of mentor teachers in an urban elementary professional …
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A Study of Shared Instructional Leadership by Mentor Teachers in Southern California
Can implementation of a mentor teacher program create instructional leadership opportunities resulting in retention of talented and dedicated educators, eliminate teacher isolation, and promote teacher empowerment, collegiality, and teacher and administrator collaboration? The purposes of this …
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The Student Teaching Experience: Mentor Teachers' Self-Reported Mentoring Behaviors, Challenges, And Resource Utilization
Mentor teachers working with Drake University student teachers during the Fall 1998 and Spring 1999 semesters were surveyed regarding beliefs about their mentoring role in working with student teachers. Survey data, collected from forced-choice and open-ended items, included mentor teachers' …
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A CASE STUDY OF PRESERVICE WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT AND THE ROLE AND IMPACT OF MENTOR TEACHERS
… development of two preservice world language teachers during student teaching, and the role that mentor teachers play in their identity formation. Using situated learning theory and symbolic interactionism as complementary theoretical lenses, this study adds to the limited work on world …
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Building a Professional Support Program for the Beginning Teacher
… of a professional support program for beginning teachers in a school division for the 1997-98 school year. The community members including mentor teachers, principals, and central office staff, supported specific needs in a structured program to assist beginning teachers to learn how to teach. …
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The perceived impact of pre-service student teachers on the optimal learning environment of the students they teach and the teachers who mentor them
… to explore the perceived impact of pre-service teachers on the students they teach and the cooperating teachers who mentor them. More specifically, this study was designed to explore the impact on the learning environment of high school students who were taught by pre-service teachers and the …
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ESL teachers’ perceptions of good mentoring practice in Senegal: An indigenous, postcolonial, and sociocultural analysis
… is an analysis of how two pre-service mentor teachers described and practiced good mentoring. The mentor teachers were associated with the English language teacher education program at Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal. The findings suggest that good mentoring practice …
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A Comparison of the Similarities and Differences between Traditionally and Alternatively Prepared First Year Secondary Teachers in a Large Middle Georgia School District
This mixed-method study examined mentor teachers' perception of the extent to which first-year teachers exhibit the knowledge, skills and dispositions of accomplished teachers during the 2008-2009 school year in a large school system in central Georgia. The data, collected from an online survey of …
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Four Preservice Teachers' Use of Mathematical Knowledge during Lesson Planning and Instruction in the Field Experience
… lesson planning and instruction for preservice teachers prior to their transition into their teaching career. However, preservice teachers often struggle applying their developing knowledge and skills because of the multifaceted nature of the field experience context. This complexity is …
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Becoming an Effective Digital Educator: A Case Study of Technology Preparation in a Novel Preservice Teacher Internship Program
… It also aimed to understand how former intern teachers felt the entire preparation program equipped them for technology-rich instruction during their first year of full-time teaching. Internship program documents and lesson plans were analyzed, and early career teachers, mentor teachers, school …
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Teachers' clinical experiences and attitudes toward technology inclusion
… to which technology is used by preservice and mentor teachers during clinical experiences. Research supports the benefit of improved attitudes toward technology integration as a byproduct of the technology inclusive clinical experience (Dawson & Dana, 2007). Niederhauser and Lindstrom (2007) …
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The Dynamics of Student Teaching: Bringing Paraeducators Into the Discussion
… becoming the responsibility of special education teachers. This investigation explores the role of university preservice preparation to assist special educators to work with paraeducators. Using an interpretive lens, this investigation examines the dynamics of the special education student …
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Supporting Novice Teachers Through Mentoring and Induction in Elementary Schools
… purpose of this research was to study successful mentoring programs/approaches to determine factors that positively affect the training, sustaining, and retaining of novice teachers in elementary schools. The primary question was, how do novice teachers, mentors, and principals in elementary …
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'n Eksploratiewe studie na die identiteitsbeeld van 'n mentor (Afrikaans)
… weeks and assigned to a teacher who acts as the mentor teacher. The mentor teacher serves as a the link between teaching theory and subject content and also plays a major role in the contextualisation of the classroom learning experiences. The university prescribes various tasks: mentor teacher …
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Becoming a Teacher Educator: A Self-Study of Learning and Discovery as a Mentor Teacher
… role of a classroom teacher into the role of a mentor teacher of student teachers. As I traveled down the path of becoming a mentor, I learned about mentoring roles, discovered my vulnerabilities, and found a community of support. The improvements and understanding I gained through engaging in …
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Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) students’ experience of reflective practice as part of Work Integrated Learning (WIL) within two higher education institutions
… method lecturers, supervisors, and school-based mentor teachers. Shulman's Pedagogical Reasoning and Action Model and Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, field, and capital framed the analysis. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews, reflective journals, and programme documents, …
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Perceptions of Mentors and New Teachers: A Case Study of a Mentoring Program in Northeast Tennessee.
<p>This study included 9 new teachers all of whom were assigned master teachers as mentors. The study also included 11 mentor teachers who participated in this study. There were 20 participants in this case study. The study was conducted in the Johnson City School System.</p><p>This qualitative …
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Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Secondary Teacher Mentors' and Non-Mentors' Perceptions of Job Satisfaction With Implications On Rentention
… of this study was twofold: 1) To determine if teachers who chose to be a mentor to a first year teacher were more satisfied with their job than those who chose not to be a mentor and 2) To identify if common themes emerged among mentors indicating job satisfaction as that which sustains their …
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Implementation of the Georgia Mentor Teacher Program: Perceptions of Principals and Teacher Support Specialist Mentors
… to provide information on how the state funded mentor teacher program, the Georgia Mentor Teacher Program (GMTP), was implemented state-wide. The goal of the GMTP was to provide teachers in need of support with the assistance of a skilled classroom teacher who had received instruction in …
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The Examination of a Teacher Mentorship Intervention on Junior Teachers' Stress and Self-Efficacy
<p>This study examined a daily Check-In/Check-Out mentorship intervention for junior teachers. Changes in junior teachers’ stress level and their sense of self-efficacy were measured. Researchers collected data from three junior teachers and mentor dyads in a Southeastern school district. A …
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