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Peer-Group Mentoring for Teacher Development.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heikkinen, Hannu L. T.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mentoring in education--Finland.
- Teachers--In-service training--Finland.
- Teachers.
- Mentoring in education.
- Local Subjects:
- Mentoring in education--Finland.
- Teachers--In-service training--Finland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
- London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Supporting new teachers is a common challenge globally and the European Commission has recently emphasised the need to promote a lifelong continuum of teachers' professional development by building bridges between pre-service and in-service teacher education.Peer-Group Mentoring for Teacher Development introduces and contextualises for an international audience, a new model for teachers' professional development; Peer Group Mentoring, (PGM). It is based on the constructivist view of learning, the idea of shared expertise, and the 'Model of Integrative Pedagogy' which emphasi
- Contents:
- Cover; Peer-Group Mentoring for Teacher Development; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgements; Contributors; Peer-group mentoring in a nutshell; Part I: Peer-group mentoring and work-based learning in the teaching profession; Chapter 1. Teacher education and development as lifelong and lifewide learning; Chapter 2. Peer-group mentoring and the culture of teacher education in finland; Part II: Empirical studies on peer-group mentoring; Chapter 3. The first years as a teacher; Chapter 4. Mentoring as sustainable school development
- Chapter 5. Individual and social meanings of mentoringChapter 6. Diverse landscapes of mentoring; Chapter 7. Peer-group mentoring in the context of transforming local administration; Chapter 8. A multiprofessional mentoring group at a vocational school; Chapter 9. Experiences of peer-group mentoring in homogeneous and heterogeneous groups; Chapter 10. Diversity of mentoring; Chapter 11. The group as a context for peer-group mentoring; Chapter 12. Keys to success; Part III: Towards collegial learning; Chapter 13. Lessons learnt from peer-group mentoring experiments
- Chapter 14. Future perspectives: peer-group mentoring and international practices for teacher developmentReferences; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-429-22870-8
- 1-280-87382-5
- 9786613715135
- 1-136-29694-8
- 1-136-29693-X
- 0-203-11592-9
- 9780429228704
- OCLC:
- 798209421
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