Developing the mathematics teacher as mentor through team-based approaches to mentoring *

This chapter discusses the context for the encounters between mentor, pre-service teacher and supervising tutors and provides an example of how tutors, mentors and pre-service teachers worked together to develop a tool and process to enhance the observation and feedback experienced by pre-service teachers. We describe the experience of pre-service teachers, school-based mentors and supervising tutors as they work at the boundary between the practices of schooling and teacher education and exemplify how a team-based, enquiry-focused approach supports and mediates learning of all three agents through identification, co-ordination, reflection and transformation.