“Bonus extra mentor teacher”: Exploring the Fourth Person in a Pre-service Teacher Mentorship Triad

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Saturday 7:45 am
  In Poster Session: Mentoring, Induction, Novice Teacher Support, and Mental Health

Abstract

The triad, as it is often referred to within teacher education literature, usually consists of a pre-service teacher, their school-based mentor teacher, and their university-based supervisor. These relationships can be beneficial or detrimental, uplifting or discouraging, and often involve a great deal of role and responsibility negotiation between all parties involved. This study explores the involvement of a fourth party, an additional university-based teacher educator, who is specifically dedicated to the humanizing and holistic development of the pre-service teacher without any grading or supervising responsibilities. We seek to understand how the addition of this role assists in the social-emotional wellbeing, as well as the academic thriving, of the pre-service teachers involved.

Author

• Melanie F. Hardy-Skeberdis, University of Maryland