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The Power Of Feedback: An Indicator Of Mentor Effectiveness During Student Teaching, Dara M. Hall
The Power Of Feedback: An Indicator Of Mentor Effectiveness During Student Teaching, Dara M. Hall
Dissertations, 2014-2019
Mentorship programs have become increasingly prevalent in multiple organizations, particularly due to a large number of positive outcomes for the mentees such as improved performance, attitudes, and retention (e.g. Eby et al., 2013). Likewise, research suggests that there are potential benefits of training mentors to work with student teachers, leading many teacher preparation programs to devote human and financial resources to develop trained mentor teachers, known as clinical faculty, to provide pre-service support. Findings have shown that student teachers feel most supported when given concrete and meaningful feedback to improve their instructional practices (Sayeski & Paulsen, 2012), therefore, clinical faculty …