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Teacher Mentoring: A Critical Review. ERIC Digest.
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Feiman-Nemser, Sharon – 1996
This digest examines the spread of mentoring in the United States, obstacles to realizing the potential of mentoring as a vehicle of reform, needed research, and selected issues of policy and practice. While the education community understands that mentors have a positive effect on teacher retention, the question of what mentors should do, what…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education