Selecting and compensating mentor teachers
A win-win scenario
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4255646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Hatwood Futrell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 223-225 |
| Publication date | 1988-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Into Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00405848809543355 |
| OpenAlex | W2043464481 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
What had gone wrong? They had studied hard, taken the prescribed courses with the finest professors, pored over the material on the psychology of learning and the tenets of effective pedagogy, deepened their dedication. Each was ready-but not for this. This was a real class with real children, real challenges-a human Rubik's cube. What these teachers were missing (this knowledge dawned slowly) was the help of those who had stood before where they stood now. They needed mentors. The idea that teachers just might be the experts on teaching was anathema to those who ruled the bureaucratic structures that entangled schools when I started teaching in the 1960s. What would be taught and how it would be taught was dictated from on high-from centralized district offices staffed by people far removed from the realities of classroom practice, by superintendents accountable to state policymakers and wed to state policy (ECS, 1986; Wirt & Kirst, 1988; Wise, 1979). Not much has changed. In very few schools are today's teachers released from the two-by-fourby-six structural straightjacket that traps both
Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Win-win game · Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 1992 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |