What Do Mentors Say about Mentoring?.

Ganser, Tom

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ERIC Number: EJ533417

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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What Do Mentors Say about Mentoring?

Ganser, Tom

Journal of Staff Development, v17 n3 p36-39 Sum 1996

Reports a study of 24 teachers who were mentors for beginning teachers, using information from the second of 2 meetings with each mentor to discuss mentor roles and the benefits of and obstacles to mentoring. Results indicated that teachers considered mentoring valuable, even when under less than ideal circumstances. (SM)

Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Collegiality, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Helping Relationship, Inservice Teacher Education, Mentors, Secondary School Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Staff Development, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Improvement

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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