...Oren Cohen Zada; Shirley Har-Zvi Purpose This study examined the impact of a mentoring program (“PELE”) that offers personal guidance to first- and second-year pre-service special education teachers studying at an academic teacher training college in Israel to help them cope with academic...

...Ellen Larsen; Elizabeth Curtis; Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen; Tony Loughland Purpose Contemporary early career teacher (ECT) mentoring approaches have largely aspired to shift towards a more non-hierarchic and mutually beneficial learning partnership approach. Such mentoring can be challenging to achieve...

...Orna Schatz Oppenheimer; Judy Goldenberg Purpose This article aims to present a unique dimension to mentor studies in that unlike most research that focuses on the novice-teachers-mentee, this study explores the influence of mentoring on the mentors themselves. Two main questions were examined...

...Virginia Snodgrass Rangel; Jerrod A. Henderson; Victoria Doan; Rick Greer; Mariam Manuel Purpose The purposes of this study were to describe the roles mentors enacted as part of an afterschool science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) program and how those roles varied across three...

...Adrijana Visnjic Jevtic; Edita Rogulj Purpose The aim of this research was to find out students' and mentors' attitudes toward the quality of mentoring support during teaching practicums. The research sought to determine whether there is any difference in (self) assessment between teacher mentors...

...Jo Fletcher; Chris Astall; John Everatt Purpose This paper is about mentoring of initial teacher education (ITE) students whilst on their practicum. Design/methodology/approach Informed by a social constructivist theoretical framework, an online survey was used to capture the breadth...

...Lee Jerome; Victoria Brook Purpose In 2016, the National Standards for School-based Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Mentors were published in England. The purpose of this paper is to critique these standards through a comparison of how others have framed and defined the role of the mentor, drawing...

...Ashleigh Hillier; Jody Goldstein; Lauren Tornatore; Emily Byrne; Joseph Ryan; Hannah Johnson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to better understand the impact of peer mentoring on mentors working with university students with a disability. Research questions focused on how undergraduate student...

...Felipe Aravena Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the mentors’ knowledge gained of eight Chilean mentors during their first experience working within a formal mentoring program supporting novice school principals. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a qualitative approach...

...Samantha Shields; Megan Murray Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore beginning teachers’ perceptions of the role of the mentor in the early stages of developing a professional identity. The beginning teachers in the authors’ study are defined as having been awarded qualified teacher...

...Jeanne Lonergan; Geraldine Mooney Simmie; Joanne Moles Purpose The purpose of this paper is to share findings from a Master's study exploring teacher professional learning needs with the purpose of elucidating the needs of teachers, and mentor teachers, within the school cultural context...