Abstract
Mentoring and coaching seem to have taken over many other forms of job embedded professional development programmes across the globe. Mentoring involves providing professional and personal guidance to an assigned mentee. Coaching involves providing focused career assistance to a coachee. This paper focuses on sharing current mentoring and coaching services provided particularly for beginner teachers. Beginner teachers face variety of issues and challenges in their early years of teaching. These initial experiences determine the new teachers’ sustainability, teaching quality and students’ performance. Effective beginner teacher mentoring and coaching includes guidance in areas of professional (career, skills and expertise) and personal (work/life balance, self-confidence, self-perception, and personal influences) development. This concept paper presents an overview of current mentoring and coaching practices for beginner teachers. The study further implies the need for providing mentors with mentor coaching skills training and principals support based on the Kansas Coaching Model underpinning the principles of Adult Learning Theory to improve current mentoring and coaching practices.
Highlights
Developing and managing human resources of any organisation delivers abundance of advantages to the organisation
This paper focuses on sharing current mentoring and coaching services provided for beginner teachers
The study further implies the need for providing mentors with mentor coaching skills training and principals support based on the Kansas Coaching Model underpinning the principles of Adult Learning Theory to improve current mentoring and coaching practices
Summary
Developing and managing human resources of any organisation delivers abundance of advantages to the organisation. Local teacher education researches are highly reaching out to share best practices and contemporary classroom instructions to teachers’ professional learning and development needs in various socio-cultural contexts This concept paper explores the current mentoring practices provided for beginner teachers. These are some major concerning themes among education stakeholders in Malaysia who are taking heed in utilising mentoring and coaching as one of the most effective and practical job embedded professional development programme and support in schools nationwide. The researcher believes, this concept paper will be able to help improve current mentoring programmes as well as set a benchmark for effective mentoring practices and professional development training frameworks in the near future. This paper aims at pondering new researches in the area of strategic human capital management in education
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