Introduction
Key aspects of becoming an effective educator are developing leadership skills, assessing learner needs, adapting instructional approaches for learners, and reflecting on effectiveness. Many of these skills can be developed in teacher education programs by offering mentoring opportunities for reflection and soft skills development as teacher candidates move towards becoming teachers.
Objective of the Book
This book explores the variety of ways mentoring can be used to support teacher candidate development by providing an overview of how mentoring can be used in teaching practice, and specifically how it can be employed to support the development of a range of student types, including in-risk students, additional language students, and international learners. It will stress the ‘soft’ or generic skills that enhance employability and the ability to work comfortably with others, such as communication skills, critical thinking, problem-solving, life-long learning, ethics, and leadership.
Target Audience
This book is designed to be used for in-service teaching and beginning teacher induction.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by Springer Nature, a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group’s Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.springernature.com/gp. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2025.
Inquiries can be forwarded to
Clayton Smith
Faculty of Education
University of Windsor
401 Sunset Avenue
Windsor, ON N9B 3P4 CANADA
Clayton.Smith@uwindsor.ca