Share Paper: Breaking Down University Walls: An On-line Mentoring Program for Pre-Service Teacher Candidates

  1. Donna Sanderson, West Chester University, United States
Tuesday, March 19 10:15-10:35 AM Melrose 1

Abstract: This presentation explores the birth of an On-line Mentoring Program created to assist teacher candidates in the Early Grades Education Program during their capstone semester of student teaching. Learn how a university supervisor sustained a relationship with her former students after they graduated and secured their first teaching positions, then designed an on-line mentoring program to link them up with current teacher candidates within the program going through their student teaching experience. This presentation will explain the main goals and objectives of the On-line Mentoring Program, detail the participants as well as the methodology and data collection/analysis, share the six ...