The course was offered to schools in the surrounding area of the university campus.
Eleven teachers chose to participate in the professional development course. Nine of the
teachers were female and two were male. Nine of the participants were teaching in primary
school classrooms and two were located in secondary school classrooms. Nine of the
participants had been teaching for more than fifteen years and two less than five years. Each
participant taught at a different school, however each teacher was currently mentoring a preservice
teacher from the researcher’s university. The more experienced teachers had
mentored several pre-service teachers in previous years and those with limited teaching
experience had each mentored only one pre-service teacher previously.