The Role of Mentors in Regulating Tutoring Interactions and Dynamics within a Literacy Clinic Ecosystem

• In Event: Roundtable Session III
  In Roundtable Session: Investigating Instruction and Support Within Literacy Clinics and Centers

Abstract

Situated in a faculty of education literacy clinic, mentors describe how they support concurrent education undergraduates who tutor K-12 students. The eleven mentors were interviewed and data analyses illuminated four themes that describe the interactions and dynamics among students, families, schools, tutors and their mentor colleagues: mentors as tutors’ coaches; mentors as communication bridges; mentors as collegial supporters; mentors guided by tutoring administrators. Implications for literacy teacher educators are discussed as closure for this presentation.

Authors

• Tiffany L. Gallagher, Brock University

• Catherine Susin, Brock University