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    Mentoring between teachers in secondary and high schools
    the mentor project
    Get ready, Get Going, Get results
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    Who and how benefits from
    The Mentor Project ?
    How will the project help schools to achieve these aims?
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    Start Up, & Up
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    Mentors for the future success.
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    success without stress
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    Your guide to success

Mentoring between teachers in secondary and high schools the Mentor project phase

  • research

    models of teachers mentoring
  • Developing

    model of teachers mentoring
  • Organizing

    Training for teachers mentors
  • Testing

    the mentoring model in schools

Frequently Asked Questions

What is mentoring?
It is the tool of staff improvement in which the experienced worker agrees to take the responsibility and agrees to help to build a relationship and to facilitate the professional growth of one or more colleagues. The idea behind the project is to adapt and use this tool for induction and development of a specific group of workers – the teachers. “We encountered the benefits of mentoring in adult education with other projects that the members of our consortium implemented” explained a representative of the MENTOR project. “Also, we are aware that in the countries like the USA or New Zealand there are well-developed programs of teachers mentoring that can be good practice for us to deliver a model adjusted to national and European contexts”.
Who and how benefits from the MENTOR project?
The MENTOR project is designed to prepare teachers experienced in their profession to become mentors for beginning teachers. Moreover, school leaders, other teachers and personnel in secondary and high schools, and last but not least – students - can also benefit from the mentoring program, which is supposed to result in improvements in efficiency of teaching, students’ achievement and teachers’ job satisfaction.
How will the project help schools to achieve these aims?
These aims will be achieved by providing the teachers, who have worked long in their profession, with the knowledge and skills needed to become the mentors for beginning teachers. The model of mentoring between teachers will be elaborated on the basis of the desk and questionnaires researches and tested by the teachers in their schools through the whole school year. The model will include trainings for teachers who will become mentors.
How is the partnership going to develop the mentoring between teachers method ?
- To organize the desk research about the methods (models) of mentoring, especially between teachers in secondary and high schools in EU countries.
- To elaborate the method (model) of mentoring between teachers in secondary and high schools.
- To organize a set of Trainings for Teachers Mentors (TTM) aimed at familiarizing teachers in the mentoring skills.
- To test delivered mentoring method in the secondary and high schools.
How will the project help schools to achieve these aims? These aims will be achieved by providing the teachers, who have worked long in their profession, with the knowledge and skills needed to become the mentors for beginning teachers. The model of mentoring between teachers will be elaborated on the basis of the desk and questionnaires researches and tested by the teachers in their schools through the whole school year. The model will include trainings for teachers who will become mentors.

PHOTO Gallery the Mentor Project

  • Meeting in Krakow
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    Representatives from each country met in January 2015 in Kraków to plan the project’s strategy for the next three years during which they will develop a mentoring model for teachers of secondary and high schools.

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  • Meeting in Krakow
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    Representatives from each country met in January 2015 in Kraków to plan the project’s strategy for the next three years during which they will develop a mentoring model for teachers of secondary and high schools.

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  • Meeting in Krakow
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    Representatives from each country met in January 2015 in Kraków to plan the project’s strategy for the next three years during which they will develop a mentoring model for teachers of secondary and high schools.

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  • Meeting in Krakow
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    Representatives from each country met in January 2015 in Kraków to plan the project’s strategy for the next three years during which they will develop a mentoring model for teachers of secondary and high schools.

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  • Meeting in Krakow
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    Representatives from each country met in January 2015 in Kraków to plan the project’s strategy for the next three years during which they will develop a mentoring model for teachers of secondary and high schools.

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  • Meeting in Krakow
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    Representatives from each country met in January 2015 in Kraków to plan the project’s strategy for the next three years during which they will develop a mentoring model for teachers of secondary and high schools.

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  • Meeting in Krakow
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    Representatives from each country met in January 2015 in Kraków to plan the project’s strategy for the next three years during which they will develop a mentoring model for teachers of secondary and high schools.

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  • Meeting in Kutahya
    Project meeting Kutahya
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    The main aim of the SC meeting in Kutahya was discussion on the preparing the handbook: “The method (model) of mentoring between teachers in secondary and high schools” using the results from The Needs Analysis Report and The Database Research.

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    Project meeting Kutahya
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    The main aim of the SC meeting in Kutahya was discussion on the preparing the handbook: “The method (model) of mentoring between teachers in secondary and high schools” using the results from The Needs Analysis Report and The Database Research.

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    Project meeting Kutahya
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    The main aim of the SC meeting in Kutahya was discussion on the preparing the handbook: “The method (model) of mentoring between teachers in secondary and high schools” using the results from The Needs Analysis Report and The Database Research.

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To teach the teacher

  • Krakow 2015

    The MENTOR project is led by Krakowskie Centrum Zarządzania i Administracji (KCZIA) and involves partners from Greece, Portugal, Spain, Romania and Turkey where the teachers’ development issues are similar to our own.

  • Krakow 2015

    The beginning teachers encounter the “transition shock” while starting to work at school just after the graduation from university. Finishing studies with pedagogical courses does not mean that the graduate is really ready to work at school. The induction trainings (if there are any) are very often neglected or simply not enough.

  • Krakow 2015

    What is crucial, is the experience, and the beginning teachers are gaining it by working with our kids. Why to leave them with using trial and error method? Why not to let them from the very start take advantage from the experience of those who already have it – their older colleagues?

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Project NEWS

1st phase in the projectJanuary 05, 2015
MENTOR needs analysis research is starting.
Kick-off meeting January 20, 2015
MENTOR project kick-off meeting in Krakow.
Needs analysis February 02, 2015
MENTOR needs analysis questionnaire research are launched.
Needs analysis May 20, 2015
Teachers’ Needs Analysis Report
DatabaseMay 28, 2015
The Research Database of existing mentoring models
Project meeting June 25, 2015
Meeting in Kutahya.
Dissemination Events October 1, 2015
First round of the Dissemination Events is starting
Project meeting November 5, 2015
Meeting in Sibiu.
Handbook November 30, 2015
The method (model) of mentoring between teachers in secondary and high schools is ready.