CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Child Development



Child Development

Introduction

This report focuses the article analysis of supporting students' learning and professional development through the process of continuous assessment and mentorship by Mary Neary. The first part presents research method which is used in this article. The next part of the research based on ethical, legal and professional issues for researchers and practitioners are present in the research article. The third part of the article discusses the evaluation of learning and identification of personal development that is learned after reading this article. Finally, the last part discusses the key concepts and article review of the professional practice of teaching.

Article Citation

Neary, Mary. (2000), Supporting students' learning and professional development through the process of continuous assessment and mentorship, School of Education, 21 Senghennydd Road, Cardiff, CF2 4YG, UK.

Ethical Considerations

The researchers took ethical approval from the hospital and university human ethics and review committee. The study ensured confidentiality by coding the data. The transcripts and the demographics data were stored in the locked cabinets in university. It was also important to get a confidentiality document signed by the persons employed to transcribe the cassettes to ensure no data breach. Besides, if participants get distressed during the interview, the researchers prearranged a referral system with appropriate counseling services. However, referral was not undertaken as no women experienced any distress during the interview.

Article Review

The objectives and aims of mentoring programs can vary depending on the problem that the program will address, such as many sick days, stress and dropout among professional teachers early in their careers. Programs can also be focused on developing professional skills, aiming at developing a sense of competency support the creation of links between theoretical knowledge and practical teaching or allow new teachers to bring new ideas in the classroom which is more rare, however.

Overall, the mentoring pursues different goals to improve working conditions for beginning teachers, to enable their retention within the profession and promote professional development. These programs offer various measures to help young teachers to move beyond survival and to face the reality shock when employability. In this regard, Gervais has also argued that mentoring helps young novices to go beyond survival, transitional period in which teachers spend that begin: one of the goals of a program insertion should be to help the young teacher qualified to go beyond survival strategies.

Professional Issues

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