... of policy expectations, the duality of their roles and the challenges they face, providing insights into how professional learning can address these issues. Design/methodology/approach Adopting a qualitative methodology, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 cooperating teachers (CTs), all...

... teachers (or mentors) as a way to emphasize the intensive and immersive nature of residency placements that afford the development of preservice teachers as whole teachers. This is qualitatively different from the short-term relationship and goals that cooperating teachers and student teachers can develop...

...Twyla Salm; Val Mulholland Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a deeper understanding of how to implement a professional development training strategy for the Adaptive Mentorship (AM) model (Ralph and Walker, 2010a) and explore how cooperating teachers used the model, not only...