Shared Learning Experiences and the Development of Mentoring Partnerships During the Internship

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 24
  In Roundtable Session: Interactive Roles of University Supervisors and Mentors With Preservice Teachers

Abstract

Practicing teachers often identify the final internship as the most valuable and relevant component of teacher preparation. An important key to effective internship experiences is the quality of the mentoring, which should be educative in nature (Bradbury & Koballa, 2008; Feiman-Nemser, 2012). While the rationale for these educative mentoring relationships and interactions are outlined in the literature, there is less information about how to foster the development of them. In this study we examined how a shared learning experience prior to the internship was perceived by mentors and interns as contributing to their mentoring relationships and interactions during the internship.

Authors

• Alyson J. Adams, University of Florida

• Rachelle Curcio, University of South Carolina