Mentoring for Teachers’ Competencies Development in the 21st Century

DOI

10.2991/mmetss-18.2018.109How to use a DOI?

Keywords

mentoring, teachers’ competencies, e-mentoring

Abstract

Mentoring plays an important role on developing teacher competencies in the 21st century. Through mentoring practice, teachers can not only gain knowledge, skill and attitude competencies, but also acquire professional development in the career path. The purpose of this article is to show how mentoring will enhance teachers’ competencies in their workplace. The first part of the article is reviewing competencies of teachers in the 21st century and lead to the topic. The second part is giving the concepts and definitions of mentoring, which will be told about the significance of the mentoring. The third part shows the strategies and steps for mentoring, which aims at developing and training teachers’ competencies. There are formal mentoring model of apprenticeship, training, reflection strategies and e-mentoring model for improving competencies of teachers in the 21st century. Although many models and approaches for mentoring practice, some favorable and unfavorable conditions of the strategies will be discussed in the fourth and fifth parts. Then the article will draw a conclusion for the whole topic.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Wenhui Li
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TI  - Mentoring for Teachers’ Competencies Development in the 21st Century
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 3rd International Conference on Modern Management, Education Technology, and Social Science (MMETSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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