LEARNING TO TEACH: MENTORING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The use of mentoring has nowadays become a predominant practice for the professional placement component of pre-service teacher education programs. Research however has identified that being an effective teacher does not make you an effective mentor. The mentor phenomenon (Little 1990) has achieved a meteoric rise in teacher education internationally over the past couple of decades. Whilst mentoring is now a major feature at various phases of teachers" professional development worldwide, the present entry focuses on the mentoring of beginning teachers during their initial teacher preparation (ITP) courses and subsequent early induction into teaching.