Assisting beginning teachers and school communities to grow through extended and collaborative mentoring experiences

Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 317-327

  Long, Janette ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beginning teachers; Mentoring; Professional learning communities; Retention

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953809011     PISSN: 13611267     EISSN: 14699745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13611260903284390     Document Type: Article

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