Abstract

Mentoring has proven to be an effective strategy to retain teachers through their first few years of teaching. Due to the lack of funding of face-to-face mentoring programs, a mentoring program is needed that will support beginning teachers and enhance their existing knowledge of teaching strategies and student developmental levels. This paper proposes a telementoring program which incorporates technology. Additionally, it provides a venue allowing convenient, consistent and frequent communication between a mentor and a beginning teacher. The integrated triad model of a university based teacher induction program was used as the blueprint of the proposed e-mentoring program. Through the application of technology and learning theory, the integrated triad would be accessible via interactive communication at one secure website. During the roundtable discussion, the e-mentoring website will be accessible for demonstration of this proposed online mentoring program.

Citation

Livengood, K. & Moon Merchant, V. (2004). E-mentoring Beginning Teachers. In R. Ferdig, C. Crawford, R. Carlsen, N. Davis, J. Price, R. Weber & D. Willis (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2004--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 2420-2425). Atlanta, GA, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 10, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/14813/.

Keywords

• Integration
• Mentoring
• Teachers