scholarly journals Práticas de mentoria e imagens projetadas dos processos realizados: um estudo de dois casos (Mentoring practices and projected images of the processes: two case studies)

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 4142119
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Gestoso de Souza ◽  
Aline Maria de Medeiros Rodrigues Reali
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Experienced Teachers ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Developmental Approach ◽  
Induction Program ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Mentoring Practices

e4142119This exploratory research focuses on the work of two beginning mentors - experienced teachers - and highlights their mentoring practices, the projected images of the performed processes and their relationships.  We understand those practices as intentional actions directed to their demands - derived from continuous interpretation and decision-making processes - that aims to promote the mentees’ teacher professional learning.  We analyzed the mentors' practices over 19 months as the interactions they established with the beginning teachers they mentored. It was observed that each mentor is constructing a mentoring personal style.  In this process, they interpret themselves inserted in a certain context and to face the situations they develop a proper response.  Their mentoring behaviors and practices reveal how much they rely on their teaching practices as they also demonstrate their decisions, acts, and the recognition of themselves as mentors, making it clear that they are building a framework for mentoring. The construction of a proper way of seeing oneself as a mentor and acting as such reveals patterns of mentoring, the characteristics of social, teaching and cognitive presences and the specificities of each interaction and, in a way, the learning of teachers experienced in this process.ResumoTrata-se de uma pesquisa exploratória que se volta para a atuação de duas mentoras iniciantes – professoras experientes – enfocando as práticas de mentoria, as imagens projetadas dos processos realizados e as relações que podem ser estabelecidas entre esses dois aspectos. Compreende-se que essas práticas são processos de ações intencionais – derivadas de processos contínuos de interpretação e de tomada de decisão – voltadas para a aprendizagem profissional da docência e dirigidas às demandas dos professores iniciantes acompanhados. Foram analisadas as produções das mentoras ao longo de 19 meses e as interações estabelecidas com as professoras iniciantes que acompanharam. Observa-se que cada mentora está construindo um estilo próprio de ser mentora e nesse processo elas vão interpretando a si mesmas inseridas em determinado contexto e desenvolvendo uma resposta própria às situações enfrentadas. Seus comportamentos e práticas de mentoria revelam o quanto se apoiam na própria prática docente e ao mesmo tempo demonstram que tomam decisões, agem e se reconhecem como mentoras. Evidencia-se que elas estão construindo quadros de referência para a mentoria. A construção de um modo próprio de se ver como mentora e de atuar como tal revela padrões de mentoria, as características das presenças social, docente e cognitiva e as especificidades de cada interação e, de certo modo, as aprendizagens das professoras experientes nesse processo.Palavras-chave: Formação de professores, Programa de indução, Professores experientes, Práticas de Mentoria.Keywords: Teacher education, Induction program, Experienced teachers, Mentoring practices.ReferencesBOLÍVAR, Antonio; DOMINGO, Jesus; FERNANDEZ, Manuel. La investigación biográfico-narrativa en educación: enfoque y metodología. Madri, Espanha: Editorial La Muralla S.A., 2001.BRAGA, Fabiana Marini et al.  Diálogo intergeracional virtual, conversas interativas em um Programa Híbrido de Mentoria: temas e características da abordagem de professoras experientes-mentoras, artigo não publicado, 2019.GARRISON, Randy; ANDERSON, Terry; ARCHER, Walter. Critical thinking, cognitive presence and computer conferencing in distance education. American Journal of Distance education, Pennsylvania, v.15, n.1, p.7-23, 2001. Disponível em https://www.researchgate.net/publication/245816834_Critical_Thinking_Cognitive_Presence_and_Computer_Conferencing_in_Distance_Education. Acesso em: 10 de fev. de 2010.GLICKMAN, Carl D. The Developmental Approach to Supervision.  Educational Leadership. Virginia. v.38, n.2, p178-80, nov. 1980.HONG, Yihua; MATSKO, Kavita Kapadia. Looking Inside and Outside of Mentoring: Effects on New Teachers’ Organizational Commitment. American Educational Research Journal, December 2019, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 2368–2407.HUBERMAN, Michaël. O ciclo de vida profissional dos professores. In: NÓVOA, Antonio. (Org.). Vidas de professores. 2. ed. Porto: Porto Editora, p. 31-61, 1995.KENNEDY, Mary. Parsing the Practice of Teaching. Journal of Teacher Education, v. 67, n. 1, p. 6-17, 2016.MARCELO, Carlos; VAILLANT, Denise. Desarrollo profesional docente: Cómo se aprende a enseñar? Narcea, S.A. de Ediciones, 176p, 2009.MIZUKAMI, M. da G. N; REALI, A. R. Aprender a Ser Mentora: um estudo sobre reflexões de professoras experientes e seu desenvolvimento profissional. Currículo sem Fronteiras, v. 19, n. 1, p. 113-133, jan./abr. 2019. Disponível em: http://www.curriculosemfronteiras.org/artigos.htm Acesso em 13 de dezembro de 2019.NÓVOA, Antonio. Entre a formação e a profissão: ensaio sobre o modo como nos tornamos professores. Currículo sem Fronteiras, v. 19, n. 1, p. 198-208, jan./abr. 2019. Disponível em: http://www.curriculosemfronteiras.org/artigos.htm Acesso em 13 de dez. de 2019.REALI, Aline Maria de Medeiros Rodrigues; TANCREDI, Regina Maria Simões Pucinelli; MIZUKAMI, Maria da Graça Nicoletti. Programa de mentoria on-line: espaço para o desenvolvimento profissional de professoras iniciantes e experientes. Educação e Pesquisa. São Paulo. 34 (1), pp. 77-95. jan./abr., 2008. Disponível em: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1517-97022008000100006&script=sci_abstract&tlng=pt Acesso em 5 de mai. de 2015.SNOECKX, Mireille. Formadores de Professores, uma identidade ainda balbuciante. In ALTET, Marguerite et. al. A profissionalização dos formadores de professores. Porto Alegre: Artmed. 2003.

Teacher Education Research

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Menter
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Teacher Education Research

Although teacher education has been recognized as a key aspect of educational policy and practice, especially over the past few decades, the research undertaken to inform policy is in many respects inadequate. Drawing on reviews of such research as has been undertaken in Europe, the United States, Australasia as well as other parts of the world, we can identify the key questions for teacher education researchers. These include such topics as the relationship between theory and practice in professional learning, the significance of partnerships between schools and higher education institutions, the relationship between preservice teacher education and ongoing professional learning and the nature of the assessment of beginning teachers. Three approaches to teacher education research may be defined, and all of them are important in the quest for better understanding of the field. These three approaches are research in teacher education—mainly carried out by teacher education practitioners; research on teacher education—mainly carried out by education policy scholars; and research about teacher education—carried out by scholars in a range of disciplines and seeking to explore the wider social significance of teacher education. An exploration of each of these three approaches reveals that there is a serious dearth of large-scale and/or longitudinal studies that may be seen as genuinely independent and critical. This suggests that there is a large agenda for future teacher education research.

School-Based Professional Development Programs for Beginning Teachers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Madalińska-Michalak
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Quality Teachers ◽  
High Quality ◽  
School Based

School-based professional development for beginning teachers must be seen as a dynamic identity and decision-making process. Teachers as lifelong learners from the beginning of their career should be able to engage in different forms of teacher education that enable them to progress their learning and development in ways that are relevant to their own individual needs and the needs of their schools and pupils. Teacher individual professional learning is necessary but not sufficient for sustainable change within groups in school and within school as an organization. It is helpful to consider three elements. First, note the importance to schools of recruiting and developing high-quality teachers. Teachers are among the most significant factors in children’s learning and the quality school education, and the questions why and how teachers matter and how teacher quality and quality teacher education should be perceived require serious considerations from academics, policymakers, and practitioners. Second, understand teacher education as career-long education, and problematize the issue of teachers and coherent professional development within schools, asking key questions including the following: “how do schools create effective opportunities for teachers to learn and develop?” Third, focus on the particular journey and the needs of beginning teachers because their early career learning and development will have an impact on retention of high-quality teachers. It is important that coherent lifelong professional education for teachers is planned and implemented at the level of education systems, individual schools, teaching teams, and individual teachers.

Investigating the Impacts of Coaching and Mentoring Through Induction on the Experienced Teachers

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-208
Author(s):  
Gulcin Cosgun ◽  
Derin Atay
Keyword(s):  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Experienced Teachers ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Induction Programs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Induction Program ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
One Year ◽  
Comprehensive Induction ◽  
Newly Hired

Since induction programs are generally implemented for beginning teachers, those designed in response to experienced teachers' pedagogical needs are rare, and their impacts on these teachers are not so widely researched. This chapter reports the process of a one-year comprehensive induction program that is designed for 11 experienced teachers who are newly hired at the English preparation program of a highly competitive English medium university in Turkey and its impacts on the emotions of the participants. The study encompassed the concurrent embedded strategy of mixed methods approach. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and the positive and negative affect schedule (PANAS-SF). The present study has supported multiple aspects of previous data regarding induction programs for beginning teachers and provided valuable findings supporting the benefits that comprehensive induction programs that provide coaching and mentoring can bring for experienced EFL teachers when they start working in a new institution.

scholarly journals Mentoring beginning teachers: professional learning for mentees and mentors

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Shanks
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Beginning Teacher ◽  
Mentoring Relationships ◽  
Teacher Mentors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Republic

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce this special issue focussing on the mentoring of beginning teachers which supports the professional learning of not only mentees but also mentors. The paper identifies the varied aims of beginning teacher mentoring programmes, some of the reasons for mentoring and an introduction to the six research papers published in the issue. Design/methodology/approach The papers in this issue examine different perspectives relating to the mentoring of student teachers and newly qualified teachers (NQTs). Different types of mentoring relationships are examined in various international contexts. The research, from Australia, the Republic of Ireland, Malta, Norway, Scotland, the USA and Wales, addresses the challenges that can occur in mentoring relationships, and enables us to better understand the professional learning that takes place in successful mentoring relationships. Findings The authors of the papers delineate how critical reflective practice, inquiry into professional practice, collaboration and professional learning for both mentees and mentors are key aims for many mentoring programmes. The six studies used different methods to investigate external and/or school-based mentoring programmes for student teachers and NQTs. Research limitations/implications A snapshot of current research into professional learning is provided with most studies being small qualitative ones. However, common themes can be identified across countries and contexts. The authors of each paper outline the implications for teacher education for their own contexts, as well as for international contexts. Originality/value Teacher education programmes employ mentoring pairs and triads in order to develop particular traits and reflective practices in teachers. Research shows how mentor programmes provide classroom experience and professional learning for student and NQTs as well as professional learning for teacher mentors. University tutors play a key role in supporting not only the mentees and mentors but also the mentoring relationship.

scholarly journals Dialogic reflection for social justice - He Anga Huritao

Teachers Work ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1and2) ◽  
pp. 38-55
Author(s):  
Tim Gander ◽  
Philly Wintle
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
Reflection On Action

Critical reflection is the cornerstone of teacher education and professional learning and there are countless models to support and refine the practice of critical reflection.  This paper forms a narrative critique of the authors’ bespoke framework for critical reflection-on action, created to support the gradual transformation of trainee and beginning teachers working in New Zealand communities that are characterised by rich diversity. Entitled ‘He Anga Huritao’ (a framework for reflection), the framework draws from literature pertaining to both critical reflection and education for social justice, placing emphasis on tuakana-teina (or mentor/mentee) relationships. This framework was created following the analysis of how critical reflection was experienced by beginning secondary trainee teachers in employment-based Initial Teacher Education. Following investigation of the application of this framework with individual considerations at each stage, this paper concludes with recommendations for practitioners interested in applying He Anga Huritao to their practice or setting. This paper is to the interest of New Zealand teachers and school leaders, involved in using critical reflection as a tool for social justice to support the transformation of teaching practice. In reading this paper educators will develop a sense of the particular need for critical reflection to transform teaching practice towards social justice and be provided with a tool with which to do so.

Effective Mentoring: Critical to the Professional Development of First Year Physical Educators

2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Linda Rikard ◽  
Dominique Banville
Keyword(s):  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
First Year ◽  
Induction Programs ◽  
Induction Program ◽  
Accountability Measures ◽  
Mentoring Practices ◽  
The Us

The first year of teaching is a critical time for professional growth and teacher development requiring emotional and pedagogical support from an experienced mentor. To serve this need, many school districts and counties across the US have developed induction programs for beginning teachers. This study examined 20 First Year Teachers’ (FYT’s) experiences in a mentoring induction program conducted from 2006 to 2008. Data included phone interviews, questionnaires, and one-on-one interviews. Kram’s mentoring framework provided the theoretical model for describing stages of mentor-mentee relationships. In addition, a Continuum of mentor practices was developed to categorize the levels of mentor effectiveness as described by FYTs. Based on their perceptions, the effectiveness of mentoring practices varied greatly for these participants: nine teachers received adequate mentoring, while the remaining 11 teachers’ experiences indicated deficiencies. Mentors were trained and specifically matched with FYTs, yet, findings indicated that accountability measures were needed to adequately serve most of these FYTs.

scholarly journals Beginning Teachers' Experiential Learning in the Era of Common Core

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Loy Dakwa
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Teacher Induction ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Common Core ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Content Standards ◽  
Induction Program

This qualitative, single-case study described the professional learning experiences of a group of beginning teachers who participated in a California teacher induction program. The study contributes to an understanding of factors that form the foundation of professional learning as perceived by the participants. Furthermore, the study adds to extant literature on induction, including the transition period between pre-service and in-service phases, experiential learning throughout day-to-day events and action research undertook during inquiry-based projects. The following themes emerged from the study: transition from pre-service to induction, context for teaching and learning, collaboration with peers, subtle shift from content standards to Common Core standards, questioning and ascertaining the merits of inquiry as professional development, learning by experimentation and from life experiences, current practice as the ultimate payoff, nurturing experiential learning, obstacles to induction, and managing the 21st-century classroom. While beginning teachers perceived induction as one aspect of their professional learning, they deemed other factors, such as school climate, leadership, and bureaucracy as elements that could either advance or thwart their development.

Beginning teacher induction program for technology integration in CLIL

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-33
Author(s):  
Thooptong Kwangsawad
Keyword(s):  
Technology Integration ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Teacher Induction ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Beginning Teacher ◽  
Lesson Plans ◽  
Video Observation ◽  
Induction Program ◽  
Beginning Teacher Induction ◽  
Almost All

Beginning teacher induction is a transition from pre-service teacher preparation to teaching professional which brings a shift in a role orientation and an epistemological move from knowing about teaching through formal study to knowing how to teach by facing daily teaching challenges. This paper deals with the implementation and evaluation of beginning teacher induction programs for technology integration in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) for 24 beginning teachers from the northeastern region in Thailand. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected. Quantitative data were collected from the assessment of the lesson plans and implementation of the lesson plans then analyzed using mean and standard deviation. Qualitative data were collected from three sources: (1) written logs by the participants, (2) data from video observation by the researcher, and (3) field notes by the researcher. Findings from the assessment of the lesson plans and implementation of the lesson plans were at a low level. Almost all participants reported having difficulties in technology integration in CLIL.

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