Facilitating the Professional Learning of New Teachers Through Critical Reflection on Practice During Mentoring Meetings

Autor/inn/en	Harrison, Jennifer; Lawson, Tony; Wortley, Angela
Titel	Facilitating the Professional Learning of New Teachers Through Critical Reflection on Practice During Mentoring Meetings
Quelle	In: European Journal of Teacher Education, 28 (2005) 3, S.267-292 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0261-9768
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Professional Autonomy; Reflective Teaching; Case Studies; Professional Development; Mentors; Experiential Learning; Action Research; Beginning Teachers; Intervention; Knowledge Base for Teaching; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Berufsfreiheit; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Projektforschung; Junior teacher; Junglehrer; Teaching theory; Theory of teaching; Unterrichtstheorie
Abstract	The focus of this paper is the analysis of data from case studies of mentor meetings derived from an action research project on "The professional development of subject induction tutors". Developing practice as a reflective teacher involves both reflection and action and a reflective teacher compares a teaching and learning situation with his or her own experiences and knowledge of educational theory that predict what might happen. This experiential learning cycle underpins a set of reflective practice strategies which were developed by the project team. These were offered as part of a set of interventions to the target induction tutors who were mentoring new teachers for their induction year in secondary schools in England. Analyses of transcripts of a series of recorded formal review meetings are presented and considered in terms of the evidence of changes in mentoring practice and in the practice of the new teachers to become more self-evaluative and critically reflective. The implications of the observed changes are discussed in terms of how tailored mentor training can assist in developing critical reflective practice and a new teacher's increasing professional autonomy. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10