Mentorship Competencies for Education of the Disabled PRETESTING OF INSERVICE TRAINING COURSE

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Mentorship Competencies for Education of the
Disabled PRE-TESTING OF IN-SERVICE TRAINING
COURSE

• Dr. Ilona Zubrickiene, Loreta Staskuniene
• 2008-05-15
• Klaipeda University Continuing Studies Institute

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CONTENT OF THE INTERACTION

• MENTOR DISABLED

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POSSIBILITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPETENCIES

• Continuing seminars, courses for specialists
  working with the disabled
• Purposive seminars for mentorship practice and
  focused on the concrete disability groups
• Lectures presenting concrete programs or
  innovations in mentorship of the disabled
• Counseling.

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Model of shearing of good practice
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STRUCTURE

• Who are the moderators?
• There is a group of specialists already obtaining
  andragogic and mentorship competencies. They have
  skills to work in teams, but not too much to do
  with the disability problems.

• 2. In-service program developing mentorship
  competencies to work with the disabled (18 h.)
  The group consistted of 15 participants 8
  from the Social Work studies, 7 from Andragogy
  studies.
• ! The proposed duration is designed only for
  contact meetings

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In-service program developing mentorship
competencies to work with the disabled (18h.)

• The day 1
• Self-evaluation and documentation of the
  competencies (designing a Mentorship Portfolio)
• Presentation (by the Moderator) the mentorship
  roles, methods and means for the implementation
• The day 2
• Setting up the model for the cooperation of the
  team members in concrete situation (creation
  the social enterprise and applying to the work
  position) concrete steps and activity links,
  common solution, who is who (roles
  distribution)
• Exchange of know-how and good practice
• The day 3
• Designing the real (hypotetic) support for
  disabled people in the situation
• Revision and supplementing of the portfolios.

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Cryteria for quality

• Proportion between practice and theory,
• Learning by doing (reflection),
• Competence based learning/teaching (motivation
  values setting the goals)

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Evaluation of the seminar

• Objective To find out the effectiveness of the
  seminar we used a questionnaire spread among the
  participants
• Method survey.
• Object 8 students from the Social Work studies,
  7 students from Andragogy, participating in the
  in-service training.

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Results of the survey

• 93,3 of participants evaluated the seminar as a
  very useful event.
• 6,7 pointed out that the seminar was party
  useful but they had been looking forward to
  having more practical approach.

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The respondents opinion regarding the impact of
the seminar
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difficulties in the mentorship of the disabled
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The main tasks for mentorship when solving the
problems of the disabled
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Mentorship values
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Comparative analysis competencies before and
after the seminar
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Survey of the experts

• There were 4 experts interviewed.
• They were introduced with the seminar material
  and outcomes and asked to express their opinions
  in the round-table discussions

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Statements of the experts

• There is no particular experience in mentorship
  working with the disabled.
• The issue is essential in the modern society.
• There is a great need to establish the in-service
  training system concerning mentorship for the
  disabled.

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• The mentor should work in a team with various
  specialists when going for effectiveness and
  quality.
• The main purpose in the mentorship process - to
  set and develop at least 3 levels of development
  process in practice development of a disabled
  person, development of a specialist from other
  area (ex. medical) and development of himself as
  a mentor.

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