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Roles Of Mentoring From Dual Perspectives: A Mutually Beneficial Experience
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Abstract:
Mentoring has a longstanding history and is being hailed as an important strategy for teacher professional
development. Anderson and Shannon (1988) mentoring model summarised three major components on the roles
of mentoring. In this qualitative study, we focused on two mentoring relationship, which are as a ‘Care Giver’ and
a ‘Nurturer’. We then explored these components from two different perspectives, the senior mentors and the
junior mentors. Both groups were tasked to mentor teacher candidates from the graduate initial teacher education
programme known as the Master of Teaching or MTeach, offered at a university in Brunei Darussalam. The three
senior mentors were categorised as the more experienced while the four junior mentors were the less experienced
and categorised as new graduates from the MTeach programme. Data were collected from an open-ended survey
aimed in obtaining their views and experience in their journey as an MTeach mentor. The findings revealed that
both groups gained mutual benefits from the mentoring despite the differences in their experiences, such as both
were able to have time to reflect on quality of teaching and learning, gained a new enthusiasm for teaching, learnt
new ideas and gained new perspectives on teaching and learning.
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Date:
2015
Authors:
Mar Aswandi Mahadi
Masitah Shahrill
Nor Azura Abdullah
Publisher:
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education (SHBIE)
