Contact Information
Sharon Feiman-Nemser
ASAC 125
(781) 736-2946
snemser@brandeis.edu
Feiman-Nemser's CV (pdf).
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Brandeis University
Faculty Guide
Sharon Feiman-Nemser
Sharon Feiman-Nemser
Sharon Feiman-Nemser is the Mandel Professor of Jewish Education and director of the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis. For the past 10 years, she has been conducting seminal research on mentoring and new teacher induction. This work reflects her long-standing scholarly interest in teacher learning, the role of experience in learning to teach and the contribution of experienced teachers in novice's learning.
She is currently directing a national study of three well-regarded induction programs that reflect important variations in policy and practice. Under the auspices of the National Center for Research on Teacher Learning she directed a cross-cultural study of mentoring in England, the United States and China. A book based on that project is in the works.
Feiman-Nemser has pushed the field to think harder about the quality of mentoring by conceptualizing what she calls "educative" or "ambitious" mentoring and providing vivid cases of what that looks like in practice. She has also developed video-based case studies of mentored learning to teach that have been used effectively in mentor teacher development.