Teachers need professional development to keep current with teaching practices; although costs for extensive professional development can be prohibitive across an education system. Mentoring provides one way for embedding cost-effective professional development. This mixed method study includes surveying mentor teachers (n=101) on a five part Likert scale and interviews with experienced mentors...

Article history: Received 29 November 2012 Available online 5 April 2013 Mentoring has been studied extensively as it is linked to protégé career development and growth. Recent mentoring research is beginning to acknowledge however that mentors also can accrue substantial benefits frommentoring. A meta-analysis was conducted where the provision of career, psychosocial and role modeling mentorin...

BACKGROUND Mentoring is important for personal and professional development of doctors. Peer mentoring is a core skill in the UK paediatric postgraduate curriculum. However, there is a paucity of peer mentoring programmes aimed at postgraduate doctors in training (postgraduate trainees), and there are no such schemes within paediatrics described in the literature. We developed a regional peer m...

BACKGROUND Mentorship influences career planning, academic productivity, professional satisfaction, and most notably, the pursuit of academic medicine careers. Little is known about the role of mentoring in recruiting Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino residents into academia. The objective of this study was to assess the influence of mentoring on academic medicine career choice among a...

This study exemplifies a STEM-based online near-peer mentoring approach, incorporating 56 students (high and middle school mentees) 16 secondary undergraduates (UG) mentors. The various constructive roles of UG mentors in motivating student mentees have been investigated by examining the relationship shared among them. qualitative quantitative analysis student’s daily feedback, mentors’ mentors...

Little is known about why people decide to mentor in the context of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning. The purpose this qualitative study was identify motivations undergraduate student mentors working an afterschool STEM program for underrepresented elementary schoolboys. We used self-determination theory (SDT) explain students decided become and, some them, persist as ...

Purpose Patients with breast cancer experience considerable stress and anxiety related to their diagnosis, with resulting lower quality of life. The current study was designed to assess the effect of a Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) program for increasing resiliency and decreasing stress and anxiety among a group of mentors who themselves previously were diagnosed with breast...