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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 …
Teammates: Providing Emotional And Academic Support In Rural Schools, Jody C. Isernhagen
Teammates: Providing Emotional And Academic Support In Rural Schools, Jody C. Isernhagen
The Rural Educator
Numerous studies have found that mentoring has a positive effect on students who participate in it. Mentorship for students in rural communities is both necessary and challenging given the uphill battle these schools and communities face to improve their students’ academic achievement and emotional well-being. Through examining teacher, parent, and student perceptions of the TeamMates Mentoring Program in a rural Nebraska district, this study concluded that TeamMates is providing necessary social and emotional support to its mentees in rural schools, as well as encouraging them to improve their grades. However, TeamMates must continue to heighten its support of low-achieving students …