RR 92-11 Are mentor teachers teacher educators?
Abstract
This report focuses on the character and quality of mentoring in an alternate route program sponsored by a large urban school district. In it the authors describe, analyze, and appraise three cases of mentoring all involving English teachers at the secondary level. They trace the influence of mentor training on mentor's practice but point out problematic consequences of that training. Finally, they suggest that this kind of mentoring may not offer any improvement over the more traditional methods of teacher supervision that it is intended to replace.