What is Mentor

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Someone who guides another to excel. Learn more in: Online Instruction as a Caring Endeavor

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Usually an experienced professional who gives direction and guidance to interns and new practitioners. Learn more in: Distance Internships

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Someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced person. In teachers' professional development, a supporting and guiding person who helps to raise competencies and trying new educational approaches. Learn more in: Mentoring Teams as a Model of Supporting Distance Teaching: The Croatian Example

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A more experienced individual who provides career development and psycho-social support to a less experienced individual. Learn more in: Tapping Social Capital through E-Mentoring: An Alternative Approach to Women's Career Development

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A facilitator who usually helps new appointed teachers find their ways in the profession. Learn more in: Role of Educational Leaders in Supporting Beginning Teachers in Al Ain Schools in the UAE

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A mentor is a tenured teacher who has been partnered with a preservice or novice teacher to help him or her become accustomed to the classroom and the policies of the school where he or she works. Learn more in: The Social and Emotional Issues of Teacher's Professional Identity Development

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Trusted friend, counselor, or teacher. Usually a more experienced person. Learn more in: Concepts, Technology, and Applications in E-Mentoring

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The mentor is not an academic advisor but an intellectual guide, sage, role model, and philosophical interlocutor. She consuls—directly and indirectly—the mentee about academic research, intellectual autonomy vs. the servility of social media, the purpose and methods of critique as a modality of care of the self, and about life beyond the academy and the value of intelligence and eloquence in a world characterized by widespread barbarism and coarse, ungrammatical language. The primary mode of interaction with the mentor is objective, via her lectures and writings, but this objectivity is modulated by the diligent intimacy of attention paid by the mentee to the mentor. Learn more in: Redefining the Proxemics of the Mentorship

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A guiding force, meant to support the needs of an apprentice. Learn more in: Teacher Presence

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A trusted counselor or guide (Merriam-Webster, 2020). Learn more in: Levers

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Experienced person who offers a number of supportive and developmental functions such as advice, information and guidance. Learn more in: CMC and E-Mentoring in Midwifery

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A person who has taken on the role of trusted advisor to a younger or more junior role in a professional setting. Learn more in: Women in Leadership: Barriers to Upward Social Mobility

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A trusted counselor or guide who, when paired with an individual, offers advice or support, either in an academic setting or the workforce. Learn more in: Blended Mentoring: Integrative Approach for Faculty Mentoring

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A trusted and significant person, usually older with considerably more experience, who works with a mentee to help them learn things more quickly or earlier, or to learn things they otherwise might not have learned. Learn more in: Usability in Mobile Computing and Commerce

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A master teacher who guides an early career teacher in adapting to the profession and specific school environment or culture during the first years of their career by sharing their own past experiences, providing instructional support and guidance, and opportunities for collaboration. Learn more in: Applying Self-Care to Strategically Prevent Burnout in Early Career K-12 Teachers

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Someone who has a student’s best interest at heart. Learn more in: The Influence of Self-Determination Theory on African American Males' Motivation

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An experienced teacher acting as a host to a teacher candidate in their classroom, guiding them toward licensure. Learn more in: Learning to Teach: Cultivating Practice in a Mentor-Candidate Relationship

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An experienced teacher who is providing support to a mentee in an institutionally recognised program. Learn more in: Induction of Teachers in the English Speaking Caribbean

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A guide to others; a teacher mentor guides other teachers on effective instructional strategies, curriculum, procedures, practices, and school politics. Learn more in: Teacherpreneurs as Agents of Reform

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Experienced person who offers a number of supportive and developmental functions such as advice, information and guidance. Learn more in: CMC and E-Mentoring in Midwifery

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Mentoring can be considered to be a way to support the mentee's own learning process. This process includes counseling, supervision, consultation and coaching. In this study, the mentor is the person in charge of the VLE in the study context. Learn more in: Managing Online Teaching Faculty: A Case Study and Review of Literature on Mentoring of Online Faculty

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The person who provides guidance in his/her expertise. Learn more in: Preparing Future Teachers for Technology Integration: Technology Mentoring for Pre-Service Classroom Teachers

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An individual who provides assistance to someone who is less knowledgeable or experienced in a field or area of expertise. Learn more in: Navigating Mentorship, Scholarship, Teaching, and Service: Your First Years in the Academy

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Usually a more experienced teacher who is paired with a beginning teacher during the induction process. Learn more in: The Role of Teacher Self-Strategies in First Year Teacher Experience and Teacher Socialisation

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Someone who is chosen or assigned to usher another person through different personal or professional experiences. Learn more in: Second to None: Contingent Women of Color Faculty in the Classroom

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Role model who provides support. Learn more in: Girls and 3D Printing: Considering the Content, Context, and Child

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“A mentor is a more experienced individual willing to share knowledge with someone less experienced in a relationship of mutual trust” - David Clutterbuck. Learn more in: Turning Managers into Leaders: The Art of Mentoring

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someone who oversees the career and development of another person through teaching, advising and providing psychological support. Learn more in: Catering for Personal Autonomy with E-Mentoring Supported by Recommendations

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Someone who oversees the career and development of another person through teaching, advising and providing psychological support. Learn more in: Projects from the Orange Foundation in Favour of People with Obstacles to Communication

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“Any relationship in which a knowledgeable person aids a less knowledgeable person to perform in a new job or a new community of practitioners” ( O’Neill, 1996 , p. 1). Learn more in: Telementoring: Mentoring Beyond the Constraints of Time and Space

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An experienced and trusted individual who guides a younger person on what is correct and appropriate. Learn more in: Situating Foucault in Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Measures

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An individual “who is there to help, support and guide another into a place of greater learning and usefulness” (Nowell, White, Benzies, & Rosenau, 2017, p. 45). Learn more in: Role of Mentorship and Reflection in Leading Learning Through Making: A Pilot Project

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The principal faculty role at WGU. Every student has a personal mentor to help design the degree plan and guide the student in completing it. Mentors work with students from admission to graduation as advisors, coaches, tutors, problem solvers, and (often) as goads to help students fulfill their own learning aspirations Learn more in: Western Governors University and Competency-Based Education

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A person that serves as a guide and support system to a person moving through the various facets of their career. Learn more in: Graduating From the School of Noranology: Are You a Revolutionary or an Oppressor?

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Adult working with an identified student for a specified purpose such as persistence in school, character development, or skills building. Learn more in: Dropout Prevention: Unpacking the Mentor-Mentee Relationship

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The expert who oversees the mentoring process. Learn more in: The Wheel of Competencies to Enhance Student-Teacher Role Awareness in Teaching-Learning Processes: The Use of a Classical Coaching Tool in Education

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A teacherpreneur who works with other educators to improve both their instructional teaching strategies and classroom behavioral skills. This service can be done either face-to-face or virtually. Learn more in: Getting Started as a Teacherpreneur

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An experienced advisor. Learn more in: I Graduated. . . . Now What?: Mentors Matter

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While a mentor can be considered an advisor, this implies an ongoing relationship, often being a role model for the student and providing the student with longitudinal time and support. Learn more in: Professional and Career Development of Medical Students

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WGU faculty member with an advanced degree and experience in the field the student is studying. The mentor works with the student wherever he or she is – via email, telephone, online chat, and threaded discussion groups – from enrollment to the completion of the degree. Learn more in: Western Governors University: CBE Innovator and National Model

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A person, usually more experienced, who gives another person (usually less experienced) some help and advice, related to work or school, over a period of time. Learn more in: The Development of a Master Thesis Mediated Through Technology: Challenges Felt in the Master of Administration Assistance

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A person providing knowledge, guidance, and support to a less experienced person. Learn more in: E-Mentoring

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A person who agrees to help teach and guide another person. A mentor is someone who encourages, shares, interacts, supports, and communicates with a novice about certain matters. Learn more in: Online Mentoring in Education