Novice teachers can receive individualized curriculum support while apprenticing on-line and over time with a senior colleague on matters of effective pedagogy. Teacher interns can join these telementoring relationships and online communities of practice while still doing university-based preparatory work, with intent to sustain these professional support structures through their induction year experiences and beyond. Formative evaluation is provided by an advisory group and project evaluator expert in teacher development and computer-mediated communication.
Funding is provided by a variety of interested benefactors .
Offering personalized guidance and support to both individuals and groups on this large scale, involving and serving teachers online in the ways that we are developing, has, to our knowledge, never before been attempted.