Witnessing mentor teachers model advocacy actions shaped novice ESL teachers' advocacy beliefs and practices¶
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q2 i? Two participants (Lucy and Nora) cited seeing experienced teachers enact equitable practices and advocacy as influential in their own development as advocates. → Garrone-Shufran 2022
Evidence¶
Garrone-Shufran 2022¶
Garrone-Shufran, S. (2022). "I Think You Have to Be a Fighter": Novice ESL Teachers' Descriptions of Advocacy for Emergent Bilinguals. Teacher Education Quarterly, Summer 2022. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1361502
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Interview findings from the case study: Lucy described two mentor teachers from her paraprofessional years, and Nora described a supervising practitioner who immediately modified assessments for an EL, as models that impacted their beliefs and practices.
"Both Lucy's and Nora's experiences seeing advocacy actions in practice reinforce the importance of finding advocacy role models to mentor aspiring teachers (Athanases & Martin, 2006; Whipp, 2013)."
Discussion¶
Participants' reported actions were coded with a two-dimensional advocacy framework: site of advocacy (classroom, school, family and community, sociopolitical) crossed with tactical versus strategic action.
Related Claims¶
- Nearly all reported advocacy actions were tactical; the single strategic example was enacted at the school level by an experienced teacher — related
- Some novice ESL teachers framed advocacy willingness as a personality trait — being a \"fighter\" — reports the opposite
- Mentor modelling and a school-wide behaviour program's strategies transferred to the mentee's classroom management practices — related
- Novice ESL teachers in this study reported advocacy actions most often at the school level, not the classroom — related
- School hierarchy and lack of seniority made advocacy challenging for novice ESL teachers, who relied on relationship building — related
- Students most often attributed their grammar-learning beliefs to their use of English outside the classroom, followed by high-school teachers and classmates — related
- Literacy coaching responsibilities fall into two major areas: teacher mentoring and literacy program advocacy — related
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Witnessing mentor teachers model advocacy actions shaped novice ESL teachers' advocacy beliefs and practices |
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Witnessing mentor teachers model advocacy actions shaped novice ESL teachers' advocacy beliefs and practices |
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2022 |
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2026-10-20 |
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