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Publication Date: 2020
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How Feedback from Mentor Teachers Sustained Student Teachers through Their First Year of Teaching
Action in Teacher Education, v42 n2 p167-185 2020
This study examines how three novice teachers experienced feedback in their learning-to-teach journeys, from their yearlong student teaching experience through their first-year teaching. As student teachers, the participants received frequent, focused feedback. During their first-year teaching, they continued to desire feedback, yet had different experiences receiving it. As first-year teachers, each participant referred to feedback from their student teaching mentors, continuing to draw on this support. Findings from this study suggest (1) student teaching mentors play an important role as novices learn to teach, helping novices both be open to critical feedback and be able to utilize it to improve their instruction. Additionally, (2) though induction experiences varied, each participant valued the social aspect of learning; they wanted to talk about and through their teaching with another teacher and advocated for their own growth by seeking feedback from others.
Descriptors: Mentors, Cooperating Teachers, Feedback (Response), Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Teacher Attitudes, Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Rural Schools, Instructional Improvement
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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