Successful mentoring programs require proper understanding of
mentor and mentee relationship and also understanding of each other's expectations.
Foor and Cano (2012) suggested that an analysis of
mentor's abilities and beliefs was one of the critical antecedents for a successful mentoring relationship and positive mentee outcomes.
Of these 30 workshop attendees, 7 had not
mentored anyone, while 21 had
mentored at least 1 nurse and some reported mentoring as many as 8 nurses since the workshop.
Mentoring is communicating in a non-threatening environment to guide and facilitate a mentee by his/her
mentor. A
mentor is someone of higher rank, ideally older in age than the mentee for this relationship to be successful.3,4 Mentoring of medical students started in USA from 1990 onwards4 and is in progress till today.
They found only 54 percent of Asian faculty worked with
mentors compared to 71 percent for white faculty.
It is simply based on the fact that your
mentor has or knows something you don't.
This chapter helps Catholic educators think more broadly the mission of their school to consider how they can become expert
mentors beyond their proximity to enhance the preparation of new teachers and improve teaching and learning in other school communities.
Shrum encouraged the
Mentor Day honorees to share their success stories with others to help the public understand the true impact of mentoring.
The terms teacher, coach and
mentor are often used interchangeably; however, there is a difference between the term coaching and the term mentoring.
To get the most benefit from co-teaching, the
mentor and mentee should plan their lesson together and assess its effectiveness afterward by analyzing student work or assessment data.
That being said, research also shows that one in three young people will still reach adulthood without the benefit of having a
mentor (
Mentor, 2017).
Another type of mentoring is Mentor-Led Groups, which is usually a single
mentor leading a group of four to six mentees all sharing a common developmental goal.