A "Flexible" Approach to Initial Teacher Training: Challenges to Mentors and Tutors

Autor/inn/en	Reid, David; Slinger, Pamela
Titel	A "Flexible" Approach to Initial Teacher Training: Challenges to Mentors and Tutors
Quelle	In: Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 14 (2006) 2, S.187-205 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1361-1267
Schlagwörter	Cognitive Style; Mentors; Teaching Styles; Student Characteristics; Q Methodology; Teacher Shortage; Course Content; Foreign Countries; Teaching Methods; Tutors; Teacher Education Programs; Alternative Teacher Certification; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Lehrstil; Unterrichtsstil; Lehrermangel; Kursprogramm; Ausland; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Förderlehrer; Lehrender; Tutor
Abstract	The progress of the first cohort of an innovatory "flexible" postgraduate initial teacher training programme in the North-West of England was tracked over a two-year period. The programme itself was introduced by the British government at a time of teacher shortage, and was designed to attract people into teaching from other careers. Its essential quality was that it was sufficiently flexible to allow people to continue with a working career, care for children or keep up other family commitments whilst in training, which was not possible within the traditional full-time course. It is shown that the cohort profile is uniquely different from that of the traditional course. The trainees' learning style was distinctive. The correlation between learning style and teaching style is well documented in the literature and the ramifications for course content and structure are discussed. A Q methodology investigation of the trainees' perceptions of their course indicates that it has been a mainly successful innovation, but that there are significant issues that need attention from school- and university-based mentors. (Contains 2 figures and 8 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10