ABSTRACT
Our search for mentorship was a personal and difficult one. Looking for a mentor or mentors to guide, nurture, and teach us was not easy. Sometimes finding the support we sought proved impossible. There were so many experienced teachers around us, yet the structure of the schools we taught in did not encourage symbiotic relationships in which novice and expert could collaborate to improve the practice of both. Even our student teaching practicums had limited mentorship possibilitiesthe luck of the draw. One cooperating teacher served as our model and adviser. That teacher had one semester to teach us how to run a classroom, to manage a room full of children, and to master the content we were required to teach.
