The Pilot Study on the development of a mentoring system through on-going cognitive intervention for novice teachers

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26560132
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Asada Tadashi 早稲田大学, 人間科学学術院, 教授 (00184143)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: メンタリング / 教師教育 / 教授技術 / 介入授業

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study is to develop the mentoring system through on-going cognitive intervention for helping a mentor to learn teaching skills. This system consists of three phases, co-planning, on-going cognitive intervention, and reflective conversation. To explore the effectiveness of this system, this system were used at 3 elementary schools and one junior-high school. Participants were 3 elementary teachers, 1 junior-high teacher and 3 mentors. All conversations were recorded by IC recorder.
As the result of content analysis of conversations, this system was effective for a mentee because a mentor provided teaching skills based on a concrete teaching situation. And in reflective conversation, a mentor made his personal practical teaching theory explicit, that is, why he gave the on-going comment in that situation, so a mentee could learn both teaching skill and practical knowledge. This study suggests the possibility of teaching teaching skills through this developed system.

Free Research Field

教育工学