Mentoring Via E-Learning to Enhance Quality Induction, Retention and Professional Development of Early Career Teachers
Project Member(s): Schuck, S., Hager, P.
Start year: 2003
Summary: This project targets the substantial loss of early career teachers, particularly in regional and rural communities, and seeks to improve the retention rate by developing innovative strategies using e-learning to enhance the quality of professional learning in these crucial years. The project focuses on two key areas of significant interest nationally and internationally: the nature and affordances of e-learning environments for mentoring; and the support, induction and continuing professional development of beginnning teachers. It investigates how these two areas can be best aligned through a study of three interwoven areas: induction, mentoring through e-learning and the impact of contextual factors.
Keywords: Mentoring e-learning induction teacher retention Professional development electronic learning communities
FOR Codes: Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology, Teacher Education: Secondary, Teacher Education: Primary, Telecommunications, The professions and professionalisation, Occupational training, Education and Training not elsewhere classified, Professions and Professionalisation, Secondary Education, Kura Kaupapa Maori (Maori Primary Education), Sociology and social studies of science and technology , Ng¿¿ kura kaupapa M¿¿ori (M¿¿ori primary education), Other education and training not elsewhere classified, Other Indigenous not elsewhere classified