Mentoring Preservice Teachers for Development and Growth of Professional Knowledge.

The article focuses on the collaboration between the student, the university faculty member, and the cooperating teacher, in mentoring preservice teachers. It seems self-evident that mentoring is an important topic in the professional development of teachers. The interest of the National Association for Music Education in the aforementioned topic is acknowledged in "The publication of Great Beginnings for Music Teachers: Mentoring and Supporting New Teachers." Mentoring for professional growth rests on empowering prospective teachers to think about expanded ways of engaging in music and in pedagogy.