IMPORTANCE OF MENTORING IN TEACHER TRAINING
IMPORTANCE OF MENTORING IN TEACHER TRAINING

Summary/Abstract: Success involves learning and cultivating relationships, building the capacity of teachers, figuring out better pathways to success, and providing the support teachers need to come together as communities of practice. Enhancing a teacher's professional identity is a potential solution to the drift and disconnection experienced by many teachers during their career. Mid-career teacher leadership involvement in a multi-experienced professional cohort presenting and attending together at a conference is one way to increase their professional identity. The potential of an enhanced sense of professional identity through self-awareness of their mastery experiences, collaborative skills and teacher leadership is that it may impact a mid-career teacher's connection to the profession, resulting in a renewal of commitment to teaching. Revolution, not reform, is needed to re-discover the power of teaching. Almost all teachers have tremendous power which can be released, given the proper exposure. This cannot be accomplished by tinkering with a broken system. Intellectual structures, definitions and assumptions should be changed, and then teacher power can be released.

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