An assigned mentor/mentee relationship (Raven-Craig) and a chosen mentor/mentee relationship (Davis-Craig), respectively, placed an assistant professor in science education and an associate professor in technology and teacher education under the tutelage of a senior professor who is the teaching and teacher education program lead. An invitation…

According to these authors, special effort is required to diversify the professional perspectives and experiences of graduate students from highly selective private institutions, who may be seen as having less commitment to teaching than their counterparts from public institutions and little experience of students with a wide range of backgrounds,…

Reciprocity is fundamental to effective mentoring relationships. However, we argue that it is inappropriate, and perhaps unethical, to expect comparable levels of reciprocity in all mentoring relationships. Instead, contextual factors influence optimal levels of reciprocity. Foremost is the developmental stage of the protege, with less mature,…

Students use the Internet for schoolwork in ways that reach far beyond what schools require or support, and they conceive of information literacy in paradigms different from those of adults. Recent surveys by the Pew Internet and American Life Project (Levin and Arafeh 2002) on the role of the Internet in schools suggest that there is a…

In the fall of 1991, the Master of Arts in Teaching program of The School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont, created a position to mentor newly arrived, full time adjunct faculty in their adjustment to a nontraditional program that operates as a community and provides experiential learning. This paper describes a group of five…