Group Mentoring: Facilitating Teacher Reflection

Abstract

This chapter introduces the use of an integrated mode of mentoring (group mentoring) for pre-service teachers during the practicum as an approach to facilitating teacher reflection. The chapter reports findings from a qualitative study which explored how this model of mentoring fostered pre-service teachers’ reflection. It describes in detail the implementation of this model and its effectiveness in developing pre-service teachers’ reflective skills using data from interviews and recordings of mentoring conversations.