Effect of mentoring on the teaching skills of b.ed level students during teaching practice
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Date
2010
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Common Ground
Abstract
Teachers development is considered very important for the teaching- learning process in
education. To enhance the learning opportunities mentoring is considered an effective tool now days.
It is one of the most important ways to improve the quality of teaching. This research was conducted
to see the perspective of prospective teachers (mentees) and mentors about the effect of mentoring on
classroom practices. The study was conducted in one of the campus of University of Education at
Pakistan. An experimental study was designed, implemented and evaluated in a year. Fifty prospective
teachers and 12 senior faculty mentors were involved in the program. Fifty prospective teachers were
taken in the control group and 50 prospective teachers were taken in the experimental group. This
study was basically conducted to determine the improvement in teaching skills of mentees after
providing a complete session of training and the research supported that mentoring contributes a lot
in enhancing the teaching skills of teachers and indicated clearly that mentoring has a positive effect
on classroom practices.
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Keywords
Mentees, Classroom Practices, Teaching- Learning Process, Teacher's Development
Citation
The International Journal of Learning Volume 17, Number 7, 87-98