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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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Becoming a Teacher Educator: A Self-Study of Learning and Discovery as a Mentor Teacher
… as I moved from the 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 …
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'n Eksploratiewe studie na die identiteitsbeeld van 'n mentor (Afrikaans)
As in the case of many other local and overseas teacher-training institutions the Postgraduate Certificate of Education programme (PGCE) at the University of Pretoria is a model rich in experience. In this model 60% of the time is devoted to a school-based programme and 40% to the university-based …
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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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Assessing the Three Pillars of Effective Mentoring: Induction Teacher's Perceptions of Support from the Principal, Colleagues, and Mentor
<p>The study examined the novice teacher's perceptions of success through the support of an assigned mentor, teacher colleagues, and the administration. The study specifically asked three questions which included addressing to what extent beginning teachers were exposed to best practices by their …
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Problems and induction needs of beginning agriculture teachers in community junior secondary schools in Botswana: A national study
… instructional problems of beginning agriculture teachers in community junior secondary schools in Botswana in 1998. The study also identified induction assistance needs as perceived by beginning teachers. The population of the study was all beginning agriculture teachers (107), who had completed …
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An Assessment of the Newport News Teacher Mentoring Program
The perceptions of how well the mentor teacher program meets the needs of the beginning teacher, the mentor teacher, and the school division were examined in this study. There were three populations: 100 beginning teachers employed in the Newport News Public Schools with an initial employment date …
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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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Exploring the Interpersonal Dynamics of the Supervisory Triad of Pre-Service Teacher Education: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
… and beneficial component of pre-service teacher education (Borko & Mayfield, 1995). At the core of this experience is the supervisory triad, consisting of the pre-service teacher, mentor teacher, and university supervisor. Utilizing positioning theory as its theoretical framework, 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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Teacher Preparation: Implementing Theory Into Practice
<p>Teacher preparation programs are mandated to prepare teachers that are ready for the changing landscape of the education profession. New accreditation requirements in preservice assessments and certification requirements for highly qualified teacher status are requiring teacher preparation …
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Identification and description of the development of the relationships between mentor and mentee teachers in the Halton Board of Education "Partners in the Classroom" Program
Fifteen mentoring pairs of teachers were randomly selected from each group of teachers that had participated in the Halton Board of Education "Partners in the Classroom" program during 1988/89, 1989/90, and 1990/91. Each teacher was personally interviewed. Interviews were recorded, transcriptions …
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Supporting supervisors in the clinical education setting
Jacobson, Kimberly Teacher preparation programs rely on practical classroom experiences in which pre-service educators practice their craft in classrooms as field students and student teachers. While adjunct supervisors typically oversee and mentor teacher candidates, there's a notable gap in …
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PCK development of beginning secondary mathematics teachers
… of three beginning secondary mathematics teachers. My analysis included the development of the teachers' knowledge of curriculum and their knowledge of student understanding during their first two years of teaching. The participants began the study with little or no experience or education …
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A Descriptive Case Study of an Innovative, University-Based Coaching System for Resident Teachers
<p>Teacher residency programs (TRPs) have emerged over the past two decades as an effective model of teacher preparation. Within this alternative pathway to teacher certification, pre-service teachers, known as resident teachers, engage in a lengthy clinical teaching experience under the guidance …
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The development of pedagogical content knowledge of a mathematics teaching intern: the role of collaboration, curriculum, and classroom context
… process between the teaching intern and his mentor teacher as they collaborated on action (during structured planning time) and in action (while students were present). The teaching internship resided in a seventh-grade mathematics classroom during the teaching of a probability unit from a …
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First-Year Teachers' Perceptions of Mentors' And Principals' Participation in the induction Process
… was to determine the perceptions of first-year teachers in the state of Georgia regarding the extent to which mentors and principals participated in the induction of first-year teachers. Questionnaire data were collected from 105 first-year teachers within the Central Savannah River Area in the …
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Perspectives of Mentors and Mentees on the Teacher Mentor Program and Teacher Retention in a Small Urban School Division in Virginia
… the U.S. are having a difficult time retaining teachers (Darling-Hammond, 2010; Ingersoll, R. M., 2004). 'High levels of attrition, estimated to be nearly 8% of the workforce annually, are responsible for the largest share of teacher demand' (Sutcher, Darling-Hammond, and Carver-Thomas, 2016, p. …
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The Leadership of a Superintendent: Putting the California School Reform Movement to Work
… administrators, governing board members, and teachers' association members. The study includes observations on how crisis and conflict came into play, as well as the presence or absence of moral and ethical considerations. The development of policies addressing four components of Senate Bill …
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The impact of first year mentoring experiences on the attrition rates of alternatively certified teachers.
… vacancies that they filled the previous year. Teachers cite many reasons for leaving their schools; two of the most common reasons are lack of support and job dissatisfaction. Largely as a result of teacher shortages, alternative certification programs have become major producers of teachers in …
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