Beyond mentoring: Ifluencing the professional practice and careers of experienced teachers

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 453-458

  Hanson, Susan ^a   Moir, Ellen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b New Teacher Center

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EID: 40749106131     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170808900614     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Jian Wang and Sandra J. Odell, "Mentors Learning to Teach According to Standards-Based Reform: A Critical Review," Review of Educational Research, vol. 72, 2002, pp. 481-546.
2. Janet Gless, "Transformational Mentoring," in Betty Achinstein and Steven Z. Athanases, eds., Mentors in the Making (New York: Teachers College Press, 2006), pp. 165-76.
3. Personal interviews were conducted with eight site-based administrators, four resource teachers, four classroom teachers, and two college professors. All names of interviewees are pseudonyms.
4. See also Ellen Moir and Gary Bloom, "Fostering Leadership Through Mentoring," Educational Leadership, May 2003, pp. 58-60;
5. Melissa Frieberg, John Zbikowski, and Tom Ganzer, " Where Do We Go from Here? Decisions and Dilemmas of Teacher Mentors," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, 1996;
6. and Susan Hanson and Ellen Moir, "Beyond Mentoring: The Career Path of Mentor Teachers," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, 2006.
7. Cassandra M. Guarino, Lucrecia Santiban̄ez, and Glenn A. Daley, "Teacher Recruitment and Retention: A Review of Recent Empirical Literature," Review of Educational Research, vol. 76, 2006, pp. 173-208;
8. and Bonnie B. Mullinix, "Selecting and Retaining Teacher Mentors," ERIC Digest, ED 477 728, 2002.
9. Forty-seven our of 50 respondents marked a 4 or 5 on a 5-point Likert scale, with 5 being the highest level of agreement.
10. Forty-one out of 50 respondents marked a 4 or 5 on a 5-point Likert scale, with 5 being the highest.
11. Kenneth Leithwood et al., How Leadership Influences Student Learning (New York: Wallace Foundation, 2004), p. 1.
12. Betty Achinstein and Steven Athanases, "New Visions for Mentoring New Teachers," in idem, eds., p. 3.
13. Kathleen Fulton, Irene Yoon, and Christine Lee, Induction into Learning Communities (Washington, D.C.: National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 2005), p. 22.