This book details the findings of a small-scale research study on the
use of real-time coaching in pre-service teacher education, founded upon
the nexus of teacher education, mentoring, immediate feedback, teacher
effectiveness, technology-enhanced learning and innovative approaches to
developing better teaching practices. The book includes a robust
literature review summarizing the scholarship on coaching models used in
teacher education. The authors explore how real-time coaching, as a
specific approach, has the potential to address persistent problems in
teacher education and early career teacher performance in the areas of
teachers' growth mindset, teacher resilience and disjuncture in applying
theory to practice.
The scholarship allows readers to gain a better understanding of the
history of coaching in teacher training, and the capacity of real-time
coaching, specifically, in pre-service teacher training told through the
words of participants.