Telementoring in the K-12 Classroom: Online Communication Technologies for Learning

✍ Scribed by Deborah A. Scigliano

Publisher: IGI Global
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 318
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Telementoring, the practice of online mentoring, is a powerful tool to engage students in meaningful learning. Research has demonstrated the benefits for students and telementors who engage in inquiry and project-based learning with telementoring. Telementoring in the K-12 Classroom: Online Communication Technologies for Learning provides the latest research and the best practices in the field of telementoring. Theoretical and pragmatic viewpoints on telementoring provide guidance to professionals wanting to inform their practice. A solid base of telementoring information and an expansive vision of this practice combine to promote the understanding and successful implementation of telementoring.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 17
Acknowledgment......Page 22
Designs for Curriculum-Based Telementoring......Page 26
Dimensions of Design in K-12 Telementoring Programs: A Discussion for Designers and Teachers......Page 40
Telementoring and Project-Based Learning: An Integrated Model for 21st Century Skills......Page 56
You Had to be There: Improving a Telementoring Program through Classroom Observation......Page 82
The Transformative Capacity of Telementoring on Self-Efficacy Beliefs: A Design-Based Perspective......Page 97
Fully Including Students, Teachers, and Administrators with Disabilities in Telementoring......Page 114
Electronic Mentoring in the Classroom: Where Mentors and Students are Persons with Disabilities......Page 141
Meeting the Needs of Adolescents and Young Adults with Disabilities: An E-Mentoring Approach......Page 160
Telementoring in Teacher Education......Page 173
Virtual Mentoring: A Response to the Challenge of Change......Page 198
Telementoring and Virtual Professional Development: A Theoretical Perspective from Science on the Roles of Self-Efficacy, Teacher Learning, and Professional Learning Communities......Page 211
An Orientation to Web 2.0 Tools for Telementoring......Page 231
Web 2.0 for Tele-Mentoring......Page 240
Compilation of References......Page 279
About the Contributors......Page 309
Index......Page 314

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