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What is Mentor
1.
Someone who guides another to excel.
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2.
Usually an experienced professional who gives direction and guidance to interns and new practitioners.
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3.
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
4.
A more experienced individual who provides career development and psycho-social support to a less experienced individual.
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5.
A facilitator who usually helps new appointed teachers find their ways in the profession.
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6.
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.
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7.
Someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2021b).
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8.
Trusted friend, counselor, or teacher. Usually a more experienced person.
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9.
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
10.
A guiding force, meant to support the needs of an apprentice.
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11.
A trusted counselor or guide (Merriam-Webster, 2020).
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12.
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
13.
The person who is inspiring for the student in every sense.
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14.
A person who has taken on the role of trusted advisor to a younger or more junior role in a professional setting.
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15.
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
16.
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.
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17.
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.
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18.
Someone who has a student’s best interest at heart.
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19.
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
20.
An experienced teacher who is providing support to a mentee in an institutionally recognised program.
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21.
A guide to others; a teacher
mentor
guides other teachers on effective instructional strategies, curriculum, procedures, practices, and school politics.
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22.
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
23.
Mentor
ing 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
24.
The person who provides guidance in his/her expertise.
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25.
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
26.
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
27.
A
mentor
is someone who has professional and life experience and agrees to help a mentee develop their skills, competencies, or personal and professional goals.
Learn more in: Digital Mentoring via Emerging Technologies: A Case Study on Graduate Students
28.
Someone who is chosen or assigned to usher another person through different personal or professional experiences.
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29.
The more experienced person who is giving advisement in a
mentor
ing relationship.
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30.
An individual that coaches a novice researcher through their dissertation. A
mentor
offers guidance on research procedures and methods, provides feedback on written dissertation chapters, and helps overcome challenges.
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31.
Role model who provides support.
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32.
Active and reciprocal relationship between a senior-level administrator and graduate student, faculty, or lower-level administrator, where senior-level administrator provides career role model; career development and advice; sponsorship and visibility; advice for successfully balancing life; family, and work; career guidance and support; strategies for overcoming and surviving barriers (Hill & Wheat, 2017).
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33.
A person with professional and or life experiences who agrees to help a mentee develop skills, competencies, or specific goals.
Learn more in: Increasing the Effectiveness of Novice Teachers: Constructing Vicarious and Mastery Experiences Through a Collaborative Support Model
34.
“A
mentor
is a more experienced individual willing to share knowledge with someone less experienced in a relationship of mutual trust” - David Clutterbuck.
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35.
someone who oversees the career and development of another person through teaching, advising and providing psychological support.
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36.
Someone who oversees the career and development of another person through teaching, advising and providing psychological support.
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37.
“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).
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38.
An experienced and trusted individual who guides a younger person on what is correct and appropriate.
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39.
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).
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40.
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.
Mentor
s 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
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41.
A person that serves as a guide and support system to a person moving through the various facets of their career.
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42.
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
43.
A person with more real-world experience in an area that can offer perspective, stories, and advice.
Learn more in: Mutually Beneficial Mentoring for Mental Wellness and Personal Growth
44.
The expert who oversees the
mentor
ing process.
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45.
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.
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46.
An experienced advisor.
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47.
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.
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48.
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.
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49.
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.
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50.
A person providing knowledge, guidance, and support to a less experienced person.
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51.
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
52.
A person with high levels of skill and experience in psychosocial support, in careers and/or academics, who wants to develop these skills in other people.
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