International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education: Volume 6 Issue 3

Mentoring beginning teachers: professional learning for mentees and mentors

Rachel Shanks

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…

Preparing teachers to mentor beginning teachers: an Australian case study

Denise Beutel, Leanne Crosswell, Jill Willis, Rebecca Spooner-Lane, Elizabeth Curtis, Peter Churchward

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to present an Australian mentor preparation program designed to prepare experienced teachers to mentor beginning teachers and second…

External mentoring for new teachers: mentor learning for a change agenda

Caroline Daly, Emmajane Milton

The purpose of this paper is to report on a qualitative study of the learning and development of 70 external mentors during the first year of their deployment to support early…

Mentoring pre-service educators in the development of professional disposition

Heather D. Kindall, Tracey Crowe, Angela Elsass

Professional dispositions must be cultivated through focused self-reflection and targeted, authentic, internship experiences prior to entering the teaching profession. Continued…

Teacher mentoring and the reflective practitioner approach

Michelle Attard Tonna, Eva Bjerkholt, Eimear Holland

The purpose of this paper is to focus on reflective mentoring practices. Teacher mentors are widely known to be an important catalyst for reflection. Through dialogue and…

Being “adopted” into a teaching community: Exploring mentoring relationships in a yearlong field placement

Erinn Bentley, Madison Workman, Alex Overby

In order to prepare new members of the education profession, it is imperative that teachers enter their classrooms with the confidence, knowledge, and skills to serve their…

Newly qualified teachers’ professional learning through practitioner enquiry: Investigating partnership-based mentoring

Dean Robson, Peter Mtika

The purpose of this paper is to focus on a partnership-based mentoring model and the learning experiences of participant mentees and mentors. As part of the project, newly…