Background: Mentors guide students in their challenges at school and in life. At-risk students in last-resort programs who are at a high risk of leaving school unqualified are especially in need of highly competent and adaptive mentors. This study therefore aimed to identify mentor qualities as perceived …

Re-Space is a building for those who are starting up in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. It is a building for refugees, migrants and also for Lithuanians. It is for young people that are starting up, but also for those who have not worked for a long time or would like to start over. Finding a job is …

Huidig onderzoek naar de samenwerking tussen professionals uit de specialistische hulp voor jeugd en informele mentoren binnen de JIM-aanpak is één van de projecten in de Academische Werkplaats Transformatie Jeugd (AWTJ) Utrecht. De AWTJ Utrecht is een samenwerkingsverband tussen kennis-, praktijk- en …

Met de JIM-aanpak wordt beoogd gezinnen met jongeren te ondersteunen zelf de regie te nemen in het hanteerbaar maken van hun problematiek, door het betrekken van een door de jongere zelfgekozen mentor. Huidig onderzoek richt zich op de manier waarop professionals bij Youké tijdens het uitvoeren van de …

The purpose of this paper is to answer the question, what progress student teachers make during one academic year, while being trained in a professional learning community, using objective classroom observation, using lesson preparation templates that match their developmental stage and stage-focused …

Objective: To explore and describe the intensive wheelchair training method ‘Drivkraft’, and describe the evidence base. Method: Two wheelchair classes were both actively- and passively observed over a period of eight days. Based on these experiences, two semi-structured interviews were held with the …

The quality of mentoring in teacher education is an essential component of a powerful learning environment for teachers. There is no single approach to mentoring that will work in the same way for every teacher in each context. Nevertheless, most mentor teachers hardly vary their supervisory behaviour …

Background Each teacher experiences a class to be 'difficult to manage' at a certain point in his or her career. The researcher, as a matter of fact, in person as well, but specifically a group of girls (16 – 20 years of age) with a pronounced rebellious, norm exceeding attitude is new to me. It takes …

Situated learning plays a key role in internships and other practice-based learning settings in teacher education. The dominant assumption for a long time has been that the development of teaching competency is advanced most through practical teaching experience and post-lesson conferences between mentor …

The quality of mentoring in teacher education is an essential component of a powerful learning environment for teachers. There is no single approach to mentoring that will work in the same way for every teacher in each context. Nevertheless, most mentor teachers hardly vary their supervisory behaviour …