ERIC ED304405: A Conceptual Model for Mentoring pdf

ERIC ED304405: A Conceptual Model for Mentoring

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The problem investigated in this study was to determine how student teachers perceived their cooperating teachers’ leadership practices. Specifically, the problem had three parts: (1) to identify leadership behaviors that cooperating teachers used; (2) to see if there were dominant mentoring styles that existed when a cooperating teacher and a student teacher worked together; and (3) to find out if the leadership behaviors and mentoring styles influenced the student teacher’s success as measured by a final evaluation checklist. Mentoring is seen as a nurturing process in which a more skilled and experienced person practices leadership styles that direct, coach, support, and delegate to less experienced persons for the purpose of promoting professional and personal development within the context of a caring relationship. The Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire Form XII was administered to 212 student teachers. Findings indicated that cooperating teachers used multiple leadership behaviors and mentoring styles equally.

Recommendations are made for exploring the subject of leadership styles in more depth. (JD

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1989-02
• Year: 1989
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Cooperating Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Leadership Styles, Mentors, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Supervisory Methods, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Student Relationship

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