Mentoring Student Teachers and Interns: Strategies for Engaging, Relating, Supporting, and Challenging Future Educators by Lyman, Foyle, Morehead, Schwerdtfeger, & Lyman (2017) provides a broad orientation to mentoring pre-service teachers. The book is appropriate for AJE Forum readers interested in practices and policies related to pre-service teacher education or teacher pipeline issues. In ten chapters the
Over the last decades, mentoring practices–as one form of teacher induction–were established as a way to help beginning teachers overcome difficulties during the first years of their career and to keep them in the profession. Yet, although these practices had already existed informally, in many countries one could witness its formalization: mentor preparation programs
Maria is an eight-year-old girl who loves to complete crossword puzzles, and, despite her adamant denial, she secretly enjoys reading. Until recently, this description of Maria was difficult to imagine, let alone considered possible. Two years ago Maria’s father was arrested for driving while intoxicated and was deported back to his native country of Mexico.
In physics, light has the properties of both a particle and a wave. When we consider light as a particle, we call it a photon. During my graduate study in physics, I did experiments to explore the dynamic structure of water molecules. In order to understand behavior of water molecules, I aimed a laser beam
