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Teacher Training And Student Learning Outcomes In Family And Consumer Sciences: A Mentoring And Co-Teaching Case Study, Melodie Davis-Bundrage, Katalin Medvedev
Teacher Training And Student Learning Outcomes In Family And Consumer Sciences: A Mentoring And Co-Teaching Case Study, Melodie Davis-Bundrage, Katalin Medvedev
Journal of Human Sciences and Extension
This qualitative study is a mentoring and co-teaching case study of a fashion merchandising course. It seeks to understand the impact of cross-disciplinary coteaching on student learning and instructor training by utilizing the Collaborative Responsive Educational Mentoring Model (CREMM). The course documented in the study was taught as a cross-disciplinary effort to incorporate career, business, technical, cultural, and theoretical information. It was found that a formalized mentoring program, coupled with a co-teaching experience involving a professor and a graduate student in Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) can effectively enhance educational learning outcomes. The study exemplifies how educators in FACS may …