Is there a theory that will support the significance of mentoring and coaching among proficient teachers?
Sure. My article on reflections could help as well as others. Look up Schön and Atawande. Guskey also produced a model for professional development. Try to develop a conceptual framework versus a theoretical.
An excellent form of low cost coach/mentoring for any professionals is to form peer groups of ideally 6 to 9 people (must balance enough airtime for each with a diversity of experience/personality) who meet regularly (can be remotely) to discuss issues through action Learning Sets. They will need some training in how to run peer groups, elementary coaching techniques and facilitating Action Learning, but once that is done they can be self managing, perhaps occasionally with some supervision to check process.
I hope the attached source will be useful to you...
Huling-Austin, L. (1992). Research on learning to teach: Implications for teacher induction and mentoring programs. Journal of teacher education, 43(3), 173-180.
Research paper entitled Research on learning to teach: Implications for teacher induction and mentoring programs may be useful to you.
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