Optimizing Professional Insertion Mentoring Activities - a Practical Model to Train Beginner Teachers -

摘要

Mentoring as guidance, counseling and accompanying practice supposes trust and mutual respect between the partners of the mentoring relationship, which, in time, favors the professional and personal development of the beginner. The mentor, as a manager of mentoring activities, manages, over the duration of the probationary stage, the learning processes, the relation building processes with an interpersonal nature and the processes for the social and professional integration of the beginner. The research highlights particular aspects of the professional insertion mentoring in the Romanian educational system and submits to analysis certain internship mentoring intervention strategies by reference to the needs of the beginner teacher and the context of exercising didactical behaviors. The occasions created by investigation and reflection on existing professional practices generated a practical-action model to improve the quality of training beginner teachers.The quality of such processes depends on the mentor's abilities, the adopted training strategy and the professional intervention techniques used in training beginner teachers.