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Title Peer-Group Mentoring for Teacher Development
Published Taylor & Francis 2012

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Description 1 online resource (209 pages)
Contents Cover; Peer-Group Mentoring for Teacher Development; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgements; Contributors; Peer-group mentoring in a nutshell; Part I: Peer-group mentoring and work-based learning in the teaching profession; Chapter 1. Teacher education and development as lifelong and lifewide learning; Chapter 2. Peer-group mentoring and the culture of teacher education in finland; Part II: Empirical studies on peer-group mentoring; Chapter 3. The first years as a teacher; Chapter 4. Mentoring as sustainable school development
Chapter 5. Individual and social meanings of mentoringChapter 6. Diverse landscapes of mentoring; Chapter 7. Peer-group mentoring in the context of transforming local administration; Chapter 8. A multiprofessional mentoring group at a vocational school; Chapter 9. Experiences of peer-group mentoring in homogeneous and heterogeneous groups; Chapter 10. Diversity of mentoring; Chapter 11. The group as a context for peer-group mentoring; Chapter 12. Keys to success; Part III: Towards collegial learning; Chapter 13. Lessons learnt from peer-group mentoring experiments
Chapter 14. Future perspectives: peer-group mentoring and international practices for teacher developmentReferences; Index
Summary Supporting new teachers is a common challenge globally and the European Commission has recently emphasised the need to promote a lifelong continuum of teachers' professional development by building bridges between pre-service and in-service teacher education.Peer-Group Mentoring for Teacher Development introduces and contextualises for an international audience, a new model for teachers' professional development; Peer Group Mentoring, (PGM). It is based on the constructivist view of learning, the idea of shared expertise, and the 'Model of Integrative Pedagogy' which emphasi
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Subject Teachers -- In-service training -- Finland
Mentoring in education -- Finland
Mentoring in education
Teachers -- In-service training
Education.
Social Sciences.
Theory & Practice of Education.
Finland
Form Electronic book
Author Heikkinen, Hannu L. T. L. T.
Jokinen, Hannu.
Tynjälä, Päivi.
ISBN 1280873825
9781280873829
9781136296949
1136296948
0429228708
9780429228704
9786613715135
6613715131
0203115929
9780203115923