Mentoring and Being Mentored [electronic resource] : The Story of a Novice Teacher's Success / Margaret Schmidt.
This qualitative study examined the growth of Chris, a novice teacher who, after two years of near-failing evaluations, successfully received tenure following his third year of teaching. His progress seemed related to the quality of his relationships with different mentors; those who invested time i...
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| Summary: | This qualitative study examined the growth of Chris, a novice teacher who, after two years of near-failing evaluations, successfully received tenure following his third year of teaching. His progress seemed related to the quality of his relationships with different mentors; those who invested time in observation and non-judgmental discussion provided the greatest opportunities for growth. An unanticipated factor in Chris' success was his participation in a university-based program for children, where he served, under supervision, as a mentor for two preservice teachers. As their mentor, in what became a mutually-beneficial relationship, Chris reinforced his new-found knowledge and skills and learned to better assess his own teaching. Among those who worked with Chris, additional reciprocal mentoring relationships developed. |
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| Item Description: | Abstractor: Author. |
| Physical Description: | 31 pages. |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (Reports, Descriptive) Text (Speeches/Meeting Papers) |
| Preferred Citation of Described Materials Note: | Online Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Montreal, Canada, Apr 11-14, 2005). |