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Helping Novices Learn to Teach: Lessons from an Experienced Support Teacher 1
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Feiman-Nemser, Sharon |
| Copyright Year | 1991 |
| Abstract | his work with beginning teachers. Released for two years from classroom teaching, Frazer worksfull time as a support teacher in an induction/internship program jointly sponsored by a universityand a local school district. Assigned to help 14 beginning elementary teachers, he spends most ofhis time visiting their classrooms and talking to them about their teaching.I focus this paper on Pete Frazer because I believe that we can learn a lot from him aboutthe role that experienced teachers could play in the induction of beginning teachers and about thekinds of enabling conditions that make this possible. Pete Frazer is not an ordinary teacher and theinduction program he works in is not a typical program. Still, much can be gained from a closestudy of extraordinary practice because it provides a vision of the possible rather than a view of theprobable (Shulman, 1983).A close study of an exemplary support teacher is especially timely. Not only is theregrowing interest in the problem of teacher induction, but the idea of assigning experienced teachersto work with beginning teachers has received widespread support. At the same time we have limitedmodels of what that work should be like. This may help explain why the most popular labels in theUnited States—coach and mentor—have been borrowed by education from the fields of businessand athletics.Providing on-site support and assistance is especially critical during the beginning years ofteaching. New teachers really have two jobs to do—t hey have to do the job they were hired for andthey have to learn to do that job (Wildman et al., 1989). No matter what kind of preparation ateacher receives, some aspects of learning to teach can only be learned on the job. No college |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED343887.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
