USING BLACKBOARD AND SKYPE FOR MENTORING BEGINNING TEACHERS

Young Suk Hwang
California State University, San Bernardino

Konstantinos Vrongistinos
California State University, Northridge
USA

The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of the Blackboard and Skype- based electronic mentoring system for beginning teachers. The Quality Teachers for Quality Students project developed an electronic mentoring system between beginning teachers and experienced teachers to support beginning teachers' instructional and classroom management skills in regards to the unique needs of English Language Learners (ELL) in Southern California. The data analysis indicated that the combination of using Blackboard and Skype tools were beneficial to beginning teachers' effective teaching of ELL.

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