Promises and Challenges: Exploring a collaborative telementoring programme in a preservice teacher education programme

Abstract

Telementoring offers many promises for collaborative opportunities in a teacher education programme. Unbounded by time and location, telementoring provides a forum for collaboration and collegiality between primary stakeholders in teacher preparation: preservice teachers, cooperating teachers, and university professors. This article explores a vision of telementoring that went unrealised. Through challenging lessons learned, the authors offer a plan for setting up an effective mentorship triad, utilising the World Wide Web as the medium to implement the telementoring context. Our triad of mentorship has the capacity to be expanded to include successive groups of novice teachers, creating a web of mentorship that will help inform all of our practices. It indeed holds great promise for the future.