Mentoring Beginning Teachers

Catalog description

This field-based practicum requires that each student work with a novice teacher (student teacher or beginning teacher) while enrolled in the course. Through reading, observation, biography and interview, students will explore how novice teachers acquire teaching knowledge and skill. By researching their own practice as mentors, reading relevant literature and participating in critical dialogue in seminars, students will explore and evaluate methods of facilitating and supporting novice teachers’ professional growth.