"Empowering" Instead of "Crushing an Idea": One Student Teacher/Mentor Teacher Pair's Story of Learning and Growing. Issue 3 (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wexler, Lindsay Joseph
• Is Part Of: New educator. Volume 16:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 265
• Page End: 278
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: Teachers -- Training of -- Periodicals; Teachers -- Recruiting -- Periodicals; Education -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 370.71073
• DOI: 10.1080/1547688X.2020.1727594
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1547-688X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study shares the story of a mentor teacher and student teacher during a yearlong student teaching experience. It looks at how working with an educative mentor (prepared and supported to enact this role) can make a difference in the instructional practices and beliefs of a novice teacher, specifically by providing the student teacher with the opportunity to experiment and by the mentor being open to learning in his/her own teaching practice.