Designing a complementary e-mentoring program for pre-service ELT teachers: online co-mentoring project

2023-01-01
Kaçar, Işıl Günseli
Baltacı, Hasan Şerif
In this qualitative study, we designed an online mentoring program to complement school-based mentoring to enrich the quality of existing mentoring experiences and explored the impact of this project on the professional development of 12 EFL pre-service teachers in an English-medium university in Turkey and six qualified English teachers. Pre-service teachers were assigned online co-mentors and asked to send them their lesson plans and teaching videos and several questions regarding their practicum, lesson plan preparation, delivery, assessment issues, as well as career-related concerns via e-mail to receive feedback. The data collected via semi-structured interviews before and after the project were analyzed through content analysis. The findings indicated a relatively high level of satisfaction among pre-service teachers regarding detailed feedback provision, the development of alternative viewpoints into teaching, enhanced teaching self-efficacy, reduced teaching anxiety, new insights into their career choices, and some challenges concerning the online nature of the study.
Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning
Citation Formats
I. G. Kaçar and H. Ş. Baltacı, “Designing a complementary e-mentoring program for pre-service ELT teachers: online co-mentoring project,” Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, pp. 0–0, 2023, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85153344729&origin=inward.