When college/university programs in educational administration focus more on theory than on practicality, it becomes critical for beginning administrators to have a support system such as mentoring. Mentoring helps to close the gap between preservice training and the actualities of administration.
This chapter describes an evolving narrative inquiry into the use of formative sustainability assessments in teacher education for elementary and secondary level education. Framed within a postmodern approach to education, we describe the efficacy of using experiential, performative, discursive, graphic, and reflective assessments to bolster critical and creative holistic understandings.
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