Mentoring in Teacher Training

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 6
  In Roundtable Session: Challenges and Development in Mentoring Teachers

Abstract

Effective teacher training is largely dependent on the successful involvement of mentors in their trainee teachers’ education. In Germany, mentors at training schools are responsible for the coordination of the training at school, the preparation and reflection and assessment of class visits as well as for emotional and social support of trainee teachers.
In the qualitative study “Mentoring in Teacher Training” research on the aspects mentioned above is embedded in current discourses on professionalization, educational theory and the occupational-biographical development. First findings indicate that contrary to presuppositions, the reflection of trainee teachers’ teaching is only partly in the focus of activities of their mentors, thus questioning the role of the “reflective practitioner” in teacher training.

Author

• Andrea Maria Gergen, Philipps-Universität Marburg