16Professional Knowledge of Teaching and the Online Mentoring Program: A Case Study in the Brazilian Educational Context
Aline M. de M. R. Reali1, Maria da Graça N. Mizukami2, and Regina M. S. P. Tancredi1
1 Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
2 Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Brazil
In this chapter, we are concerned with the expert teachers' professional development processes and the contributions of their participation in a research group responsible for an online Mentorship Program (OMP) directed to novice teachers at Portal dos Professores of Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar–Brazil. The OMP is an intervention‐research project carried out by the authors and ten experienced mentors, by means of which these skilled and accomplished teachers help, online, novice teachers through the difficult first years of their careers.
The research, encompassing many issues related to professional development processes of mentors, was carried out through the OMP. We focus here on the following objective: to analyze how participation in a research group can contribute to broaden expert teachers' knowledge base (Shulman, 1986, 1987), and to help them to deal with dilemmas and challenges they experience during the process of teaching novice teachers how to teach.
The OMP may be characterized as an online distance program that implies frequent communication between mentors and novice teachers on its own platform. Its goal is to assist novice elementary teachers. Each novice ...
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