Maximizing the Potential of Mentoring: A Framework for Pre-service Teacher Education |
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| Authors: | Angelina Ambrosetti Bruce Allen Knight John Dekkers |
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| Institution: | 1. Central Queensland Universitya.ambrosetti@cqu.edu.au;3. Central Queensland University |
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| Abstract: | Within the professional placement component of pre-service teacher education, mentoring has become a strategy that is used during the practical application of learning to teach. In this paper, we examine mentoring in the pre-service teacher education context by proposing a theoretically based framework for mentoring in this context. Firstly, the nature of mentoring along with mentoring in the context of pre-service teacher education is explored. A mentoring framework that has been developed to enable pre-service teacher educators to maximize the potential use of mentoring during the professional placement component of a pre-service teacher education degree is then proposed. |
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| Keywords: | mentoring teacher education pre-service teachers |
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