Metacognitive Mentoring Framework Reduce Student Attrition in Online Education

Abstract

This paper summarizes a veteran instructor's experience during a short, yet intensive mentorship within a Community of Practice (CoP) framework. As a member in a Participatory Action Research mentoring entry-level, College 100 learners. Key insights cultivated via a peer coaching and mentoring process helped takeaway from the coaching and mentoring process was the understanding of and new skills applied that work best with the student population. Having veteran experience instructing advanced learners for a variety of institutions, the educator learned that instructional techniques cannot be applied uniformly provides many of her best practices she uses in all her classrooms at many institutions she teaches for.