Mentoring: professional development for teachers. Uzbekistan experience.

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Mentoring professional development for teachers.
Uzbekistan experience.
E-merging forum 2 Connecting teachers of
English Moscow, March 30, 2012 Natalia Tsarikova
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Overview

• What is mentoring?
• Reasons for mentoring in teacher education
• Mentoring training basic principles
• Benefits/findings
• What is mentoring?
• Conclusions

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• What is mentoring?

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Mentoring...

• Is a process by which an individual (mentee)
  strives to achieve developmental goals under the
  guidance of another individual (mentor) with
  special experience or expertise.
• IBM
• Mentoring relates primarily to the
  identification and nurturing of potential for the
  whole person. It can be a long term
  relationships, where the goals may change but are
  always set by the learner.
• Meggison Cluterbuck, 2005

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Why mentoring?

• Novice teachers
• Lack experience
• Lack support
• Lack confidence
• Lack resources

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Why mentoring?

• Teachers in (remote areas)
• isolated
• lack resources
• lack support when applying new ideas in the
  classroom

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Levels of teacher motivation as a result of
teacher training programme intervention
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Levels of teacher motivation with mentoring
support
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Mentoring and peer support training
The mentor training course in Uzbekistan is based
on the Mentor Courses by Angi Malderez and
Caroline Bodozsky
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Basic principles in mentoring

• Teachers are experts in learning

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Basic principles in mentoring
Their learning is based on reflection and action
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Basic principles in mentoring

• They learn in the workplace

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Basic principles in mentoring

• Teachers learn and work together

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Basic principles in mentoring

• They need the right atmosphere to learn
  efficiently

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Benefits of mentoring Uzbekistan experience

• Teacher motivation increases
• Teachers self esteem rises
• Interest in teacher development both mentor and
  mentees
• Teacher retention in profession
• Teachers rediscover teaching and learning
• Professional confidence grows
• Collegiality develops
• Personal development

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Teachers feedback

• Thank you very much. I wanted to give up teaching
  because I had so many troubles... Now I dont
  want to change my job, Ill continue teaching.
• You made me understand teachers mission and
  importance. I discovered lots of useful,
  necessary and important things fro teachers which
  I didnt know before. Especially I was surprised
  by stories which showed connections with mentor
  and mentee relationships... I came to a
  conclusion that teachers should always keep on
  searching fro new knowledge, new ways of teaching
  and enriching their outlook.

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Lessons learnt

• Need for mentor training
• Time both for a mentor and mentee
• Recognition by administration and peers
• Shared understanding of mentoring with ministries
  and its representatives
• Provision for mentor training and mentoring in
  system of education

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Contact details

• British Council
  
• 13th floor, Block A, International Business
  Centre 107B, Amir Temur str.,
• Tashkent
• Tel. [phone]
• Natalia Tsarikova
• natalia.tsarikova_at_britishcouncil.uz
• www.britishcouncil.org/uzbekistan