The quality of mentoring in teacher education is an essential component of a powerful learning environment for teachers. There is no single approach to mentoring that will work in the same way for every teacher in each context. Nevertheless, most mentor teachers hardly vary their supervisory behaviour …

Het begeleiden van leerprocessen van nieuwe leraren door werkplekbegeleiders (mentoren) staat de laatste jaren sterk in de belangstelling van scholen en lerarenopleidingen. De opbrengst van werkplekbegeleiding hangt onder meer af van de kwaliteit van begeleidingsgesprekken. Een belangrijk aspect van …

The European music profession is rapidly changing and suggests more flexible career patterns and a need for transferable skills and lifelong learning strategies. Musicians collaborate increasingly with practitioners in other arts and societal cross-sector settings. This reality holds challenges and implications …

This field report examines initiatives in music lifelong learning through the research network Lifelong Learning in Music (LLM) of the Prince Claus Conservatoire in the Netherlands. LLM collaborates with other schools on various projects. As well, there is an innovative masters programme ‘New audiences …

Uitgaande van de verschillende relaties van opleiders en begeleiders van leraren ten opzichte van nieuwe leraren die zij op de werkplek ondersteunen, wordt in deze bijdrage een onderscheid gemaakt in drie verschillende ‘typen’ lerarenopleiders en de uiteenlopende benamingen daarvoor. Daarbij wordt tevens …

The aim of this study is to clarify how pre-service teachers perceive mentor teachers' use of mentoring skills. Sixty stimulated-recall interviews were conducted, each in connection with a previously recorded mentoring dialogue. A quantitative analysis showed that six types of mentoring skills appeared …

In this AERA Division K symposium, 18 researchers from 7 different countries (China, New Zealand, France, Australia, Netherlands, Spain, and Canada) are brought together. The symposium provides the opportunity to engage and interact with international research efforts focussing on 'practicum pedagogies,' …

The extent to which mentor teachers are able to address mentees' individual needs is an important factor in the success of mentoring. A two-dimensional model of mentor teacher roles in mentoring dialogues, entitled MERID, is explored empirically. Data regarding five aspects of mentoring dialogues were …

Om de brug te kunnen slaan tussen onderzoek en praktijk hebben twee ministeries academische werkplaatsen opgericht. Een academische werkplaats is een samenwerkingsverband tussen een praktijkinstelling en een hogeschool of universiteit. De praktijkinstelling krijgt toegang tot onderzoeksresultaten en …

The main goal of the current study is to capture differential frequencies of mentor teachers' reflective moments, as indicators of different levels of consciousness in mentor teachers' use and acquisition of supervisory skills during mentoring dialogues. For each of the 30 participants, two mentoring …