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Teacher Education in the 21st Century pp 217–232Cite as

Mentoring and School Partnerships

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According to Malvolio in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon’em” (Shakespeare, trans. 1601–02, 2.5.146–147). Similarly in teaching, some are born to teach, some acquire skills to teach, and others have teaching thrust upon them. Despite the differing views on whether teachers are born, made or are “manufactured” because of circumstances, there is a substantial and growing evidence that teacher education matters for teacher effectiveness (Darling-Hammond 2006a). Good teacher education programmes help teachers develop the necessary knowledge, skills and values for optimal teaching and lay the foundation of lifelong learning . These powerful programmes share many similar features, one of which is that they all have “extensive and intensely supervised clinical work integrated with course work using pedagogies that link theory and practice” (Darling-Hammond 2006b, p. 300). To have “extensive and intensely supervised” teaching practice for the pre-service teachers, the teacher education institute or university needs to ensure that her supervisors are equipped with mentoring skills and that there is “proactive relationships with schools” (p. 300).

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Png, L.H.J., Liu, WC. (2017). Mentoring and School Partnerships. In: Tan, OS., Liu, WC., Low, EL. (eds) Teacher Education in the 21st Century. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3386-5_12

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