Abstract:
This paper is a discussion of a study conducted collaboratively by teacher educators
at an Australian university and personnel from an Australian authority that employs
state teachers. The study was an investigation of how beginning teachers could be
supported by a network comprising teacher educators, beginning teachers and
experienced teachers who were located at different schools from the beginning
teachers. Ways of enhancing mentoring skills for the group of experienced teachers
were also examined. In this paper, the nature of the support network and the
experiences of the beginning teachers in the network are discussed.
