Inaugural public lecture - Dr Hoa Nguyen

Event by UNSW School of Education

Collaborative peer mentoring in preservice teachers’ professional experience Over the past decade, there have been calls for change and reform of professional experience in teacher education programs. How to improve the quality of professional experience is a critically important question to all stakeholders. There is considerable support for the notion that the quality of professional experience should not reside solely with the quality of mentoring from the supervising teacher or university mentor. Offering alternatives to this model so as to maximise preservice teacher learning through the peer based models during the professional experience is an initiative to improve the quality of teacher learning in teacher education programs.

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Date September 13, 2016 - September 13, 2016
Time 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Venue: Room 119 John Goodsell Building, UNSW Kensington Campus

In this talk, Dr Nguyen will discuss her empirical work on the impacts of different peer mentoring models which were integrated into the professional experience. Studies examining the impacts of these peer-based models will be discussed, along with implications for practice and research. To end, she will identify several critical issues that teacher educators should take into consideration when planning and implementing a peer mentoring program for preservice teachers during their professional experience.

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About Dr Hoa Nguyen

Dr Hoa Nguyen is a Lecturer in Teacher Professional Learning in the School of Education, The University of New South Wales. Her ongoing research interests have been in the areas of teacher education, teacher professional development, mentoring, TESOL, and sociocultural theory. Her research will be published in a forthcoming book entitled Models of Mentoring in Language Education