Mutual Mentoring
Abstract
Teaching is a highly complex and deeply personal profession. Mutual mentoring is a non-hierarchical professional development approach that brings mid-career teachers together as teacher-friends. In this approach, teachers create a community of practice with one another and develop as critical and creative thinking partners. This chapter describes the benefits of teacher-friend mentoring and how to choose a trekking partner. This chapter uses a trekking metaphor to capture the process of choosing to venture out and explore someplace new and fresh.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Mentoring and Academic Development
School Leadership and Teacher Performance
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 19–34
- Publication date
- 14 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter