“Your Lesson Plan Isn’t a Response”: Distributed Co-Mentoring in Urban Teacher Residency

• In Event: Rethinking Mentoring

Abstract

Mentoring activities for teacher collaboration between universities and schools are moving toward partnership-based models for preservice teachers’ learning and teacher–educators’ development to address issues of equity and social justice. To explore this trend, this research investigates how co-mentorship is distributed among preservice teachers and teacher–educators in the context of an urban teacher residency (UTR) program. By analyzing program archival interview transcripts from multiple cohorts, the primary purpose of this study is to scrutinize how UTR university-based and school-based teacher–educators distribute co-mentoring to develop their reflective practice and transform their knowledge of reflective practice together with teaching residents. The findings suggest teacher–educators can craft distributed co-mentorship among themselves and with residents to promote mutual growth.

Author

• Sharon Chang, Teachers College, Columbia University