What is it about?
Mentor teachers and early career teachers can leverage mentoring to meet the ever-increasing and changing complexities of the profession. They can, however, find it challenging to make mentoring conversations rich, collaborative and mutually beneficial. We show how learning about intellectual virtues, like curiosity, open-mindedness and intellectual humility, can ready them to enact these conversations.
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Why is it important?
Teacher mentoring is key to supporting teachers' professional learning throughout their careers and assisting with managing the complex demands of the profession. Mentoring is not, however, as easy as it sounds, and this paper will assist teachers and school leaders to better understand how to develop the personal and relational capabilities needed for mentoring to have real impact.
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I am really proud of this paper as it is not only based on a national research project but draws on the perspectives of teachers who are in schools, right now, working hard to support one another through mentoring.
Ellen Larsen
University of Southern Queensland
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This page is a summary of: Building personal and relational readiness for collaborative teacher mentoring through the intellectual virtues, International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, October 2024, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ijmce-04-2024-0049.
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