Share Paper: ROMOTE: Remote Online Mentoring of Teacher Educators
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Tina Heafner, UNC Charlotte, United States
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Teresa Petty, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States
Abstract: Unique challenges for early career teachers in urban and rural schools, and graduates of remote distance education teacher licensure programs reveal the need for sustained community engagement, professional development, ongoing reflection and collective discourse. Building upon prior technology-mediated projects, researchers propose integrating refined technology uses to support an online mentoring program. ROMOTE is an online mentoring program where experienced, master teachers synchronously observe early career teachers, identify areas for intervention using shared viewing software applications, engage in designing specialized professional support, open their classrooms and model effective strategies through synchronous observations by the early career teacher, and facilitate collective professional ...