Research and Teaching: Assessment of a Constructivist-Motivated Mentoring Program to Enhance the Teaching Skills of Atmospheric Science Graduate Students

by: Jim Benedict, Erica McGrath-Spangler, Luke Van Roekel, Kelley Wells, and Howard Drossman

This article describes a collaborative mentoring program in which graduate students from a university atmospheric science research department team-taught environmental science classes with professors in a liberal arts college. Qualitative analysis of narratives from four fellows who completed the mentoring program in an upper-level undergraduate atmospheric science class was used to develop hypotheses about approaches to mentoring and teaching.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 11/1/2011Stock # jcst11_041_02_72Volume 041Issue 02

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