Mentoring Styles and Mentees' Roles: Matchups That Support Student-Teachers' Professional Agency for Learning

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

Abstract

Teacher mentoring is often expected to encourage professional learning. Teacher professional learning and teacher professional agency are closely related concepts. However, the role of agency within mentoring relationships is typically complex. Specifically, scholars disagree on whether student-teachers can enact agency and influence their senior mentor-teachers’ learning. This study claims that analyzing the interrelationship between mentor-teachers’ mentoring styles and the roles that student-teachers undertake in these relationships sheds light on this issue. It may explain why in some cases student-teachers manage to enact professional agency while in other cases they feel powerless to do so.

Author

• Tal Carmi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Presenting Author