Mentoring and online lesson plan sharing platform contribute to mathematics teachers’ growth: Teachers’ perspective

Ruti Segal

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Ruti Segal ¹ ^*

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¹ Oranim Academic College of Education, Tivon, ISRAEL^* Corresponding Author

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This three-year study aimed to examine how an intervention program that included mentoring alongside documenting and sharing lesson plans (LPs) over a collaborative platform environment contributed to the development of the pedagogical content knowledge of in-service mathematics teachers undergoing their first experience teaching advanced high school mathematics. In the program, 20 experienced teachers (mentors) in 20 high schools accompanied 24 inexperienced teachers (mentees) in the planning, teaching, sharing, and documenting of their advanced mathematics lessons on a specially created, collaborative online platform called RAMZOR and in professional development workshops. The RAMZOR platform enables documenting and sharing LPs and resources. The results indicate that, according to the mentees, the combination of mentoring and collaborative platform led to the development of the professional knowledge required for teaching advanced-level high school mathematics and an increase in their self-confidence, sense of efficacy, and ability to meet curriculum goals.

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high school mathematics teachers
mentoring
professional knowledge for teaching mathematics
lesson plans
collaboration

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 21, Issue 3, March 2025, Article No: em2599

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Segal, Ruti "Mentoring and online lesson plan sharing platform contribute to mathematics teachers’ growth: Teachers’ perspective". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 21, no. 3, 2025, em2599. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/16047