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The Role of the Mentor

The Role of the Mentor

Chris Farrell
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 10
ISBN13: 9781522540502|ISBN10: 1522540504|EISBN13: 9781522540519
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4050-2.ch013
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Farrell, Chris. "The Role of the Mentor." Mentorship Strategies in Teacher Education, edited by Kenan Dikilitas, et al., IGI Global, 2018, pp. 225-234. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4050-2.ch013

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Farrell, C. (2018). The Role of the Mentor. In K. Dikilitas, E. Mede, & D. Atay (Eds.), Mentorship Strategies in Teacher Education (pp. 225-234). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4050-2.ch013

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Farrell, Chris. "The Role of the Mentor." In Mentorship Strategies in Teacher Education, edited by Kenan Dikilitas, Enisa Mede, and Derin Atay, 225-234. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4050-2.ch013

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the role of the mentor the context of a modern language institution. It looks at two strands of mentorship: within the organization and while interacting with the wider ELT world. In the first context the authors look at the various functions a mentor is expected to perform with a particular focus on the scheme as it exists in Centre of English Studies in the UK and Ireland. Here we have a comprehensive mentor program in operation for the summer quarter of the year with weekly sessions and comprehensive support provided. For the other three quarters of the year, the mentor role is more ad-hoc, with a flexible program and timetable dictated by the teachers' needs. In both of these situations, the mentor has to play a number of key roles and be relatively proficient in these. In terms of the role of the mentor in an external context, this chapter looks at the role of mentor in the Irish Research Scheme for Teaching, a national research scheme aimed at promoting academic quality through research in Ireland.

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