Staying Afloat: Using Experiential Collaborative Mentorship and Narrative Pedagogy to Support Preservice Teachers' Writing Development

• In Event: 31.093 - Sheraton Roundtable Three - Osgoode Ballroom
  In Roundtable Session: 31.093-6 - Becoming a Teacher: Reflecting on the Process

Abstract

In this paper, I examine the practice of incorporating experiential collaborative narratives and experiential collaborative mentorship strategies to foster and promote an experiential collaborative relationship between pre-service English teachers and their mentor teachers while engaging in a writing workshop. Twelve pre-service secondary English teachers (PSETs) and their mentors share and discuss the complexities of their stories about writing, writing instruction and their mentoring experiences. Drawing on Goodson and Gill’s (2011) narrative pedagogy, Lopez (2013) collaborative mentorship and following a qualitative inductive design, I identify the central instrument to search for the “self” and to find meaning behind the participants’ learning experiences and teacher memories that come alive via reflective processes, narratives and mentoring interactions.

Author

• Elsie Lindy Olan, University of Central Florida