Mentoring early career special education teachers

Title: Mentoring early career special education teachers
Creator: Dempsey, Ian; Arthur-Kelly, Michael; Carty, Breda
Relation: Australian Journal of Education Vol. 53, Issue 3, p. 294-305
Relation: http://research.acer.edu.au/aje/vol53/iss3/6
Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Research
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2009
Description: For some time, special education has been plagued by shortages of qualified teaching staff and by high turnover rates for these staff. While several factors - external, employment and personal - are largely responsible for this situation, the research demonstrates that the initial professional experiences of early career teachers are closely associated with their longevity in the field. This paper reviews the literature on mentoring support for beginning teachers, mentoring models and the use of information technologies in mentoring support. The paper concludes with recommendations for methods of support for Australian early career special-education teachers.
Subject: mentoring; staff development; special education; teacher orientation; early teachers; information and communications technology
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/806775
Identifier: uon:7207
Identifier: ISSN:0004-9441
Language: eng
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