Team based mentoring also provides an authentic context in which the consequences of one's actions as a beginning teacher, experienced teacher, and teacher educator, are immediate and significant. Programmatic weaknesses become apparent. Course sequences have changed, and requirements for practica have been made more stringent. As the teachers of record, interns learn that the basis of effective teaching is ongoing relationships with students. Interns have an entire year to work with their students and can repair mistakes, resolve issues, and develop trust and mutual respect.
Interns have the opportunity to try, fail, and learn.
Because of this opportunity, interns can extend the same opportunity to try, fail, and learn to their students. Professionalizing teaching-building structures and capacity among the ranks. District Administration prioritizing in the face of budget cuts. Change strategies in the university context. Governance, collaboration, and evolution.