Keeping our teachers! Investigating mentoring practices to support and retain novice educators

Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 329-341

  Parker, Michele A ^a   Ndoye, Abdou ^a   Imig, Scott R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Beginning teachers; Induction; Mentorship; Teacher retention and attrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953810280     PISSN: 13611267     EISSN: 14699745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13611260903391500     Document Type: Article

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