Getting Inside Mentoring: Audio Recordings as a Professional Development Tool for Mentors

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Fifteen
  In Roundtable Session: Studying Mentorship (Table 5)

Abstract

This study investigates five mentor teachers during the 2021-2022 school year as they participated in monthly mentor professional development meetings. It asks the question “How can recordings of mentor/mentee conversations be used within mentor professional development to support the development of educative mentors?” This qualitative analysis used interviews and video recordings of meetings to understand the mentor teacher experiences. We find that audio clips in mentor meetings worked to support mentor teachers learning as mentors and teachers and worked to deprivatize the work of mentoring. Findings from this study can help inform mentor professional development facilitation and can help inform decisions regarding how to prepare and support mentor teachers.

Authors

• Lindsay J. Wexler, North Central College
  Presenting Author

• Alicia J. Wyche Okpareke, WestEd
  Presenting Author