Mentoring between teachers in secondary and high schools Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mentoring between teachers in secondary and high schools

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships addressing more than one field

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Pedagogy and didactics; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The project “Mentoring between teachers in secondary and high schools” was a three-years project, taking place between 01.09.2014 and 31.08.2017.
The aim of the project was to elaborate an innovative method of mentoring between teachers in secondary schools.
The project was implemented by six partner institutions:
– Krakowskie Centrum Doskonalenia Kadr Oświatowych (teacher training company) as a department of Krakowskie Centrum Zarządzania i Administracji Sp. z o.o. from Krakow – Poland (coordinator),
– DIEFTHYNSI DEFTEROVATHMIAS EKPEDEFSIS NOMOU FTHIOTIDAS (educational authorities in Fthiotidas region) from Lamia – Greece,
– XXI INVESLAN, S.L. (consulting, research and adult education company) from Bilbao – Spain,
– INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE LISBOA (university) from Lisbon – Portugal,
– UNIVERSITATEA LUCIAN BLAGA DIN SIBIU (university) from Sibiu – Romania,
– KUTAHYA IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU (educational authorities in Kutahya region) from Kutahya – Turkey.
Within the project’s implementation:
– the questionnaire research was conducted, diagnosing the state of awareness of mentoring between teachers among teachers and headmasters of the secondary schools, combined with needs analysis towards this kind of teachers professional development,
– the desk research was done about the methods (models) of mentoring, especially between teachers in secondary and high schools in EU countries and beyond (including the USA, Australia and New Zealand),
– the method (model) of mentoring between teachers in secondary and high schools was elaborated and described in the Handbook “The method (model) of mentoring between teachers in secondary and high schools” with the Supplement comprising of additional texts,
– a set of training materials were prepared and gathered in The Training Kit – “Manual: Training for Teachers Mentors”, and the pilot Trainings for Teachers Mentors (TTM) were organized in each partner country,
– the mentoring method was tested in the chosen secondary and high schools during the school year 2016/2017,
– the Guidelines – “How to implement mentor model in the school. – Tips for the schools” were elaborated on the basis of the experiences from the testing phase at schools,
– there were organized and implemented different dissemination activities aimed at promoting the elaborated mentoring between teachers model in the partner countries and other EU countries, including promotional seminars in the partner countries, final international conference in Lamia (Greece), as well as the activities aimed at disseminating the Memorandum of Understanding, which describes the meaning of the mentoring for the professional development of teachers.

The results of the project and its impact could be seen in the following areas:
1. Helping the beginning teachers in faster adaptation in their new working environment, that is the school, and in the same time in better integration with the other teachers, faster adjustment to the role of the teacher, and shaping better relations with the students’ parents and families, as well as the local society.
2. Development of the experienced teachers, who could use their knowledge and experience while mentoring their beginning colleagues.
3. Through the professional development of the teachers, both the beginning and experienced (mentors), the schools enlarge their potential to be innovative environments of education.

The elaborated model of mentoring between teachers has a universal character and could be used in the primary and secondary schools in all European countries, despite the differences in educational systems.
All project’s products connected with the mentoring between teachers method, which are:
– Needs Analysis Report,
– The Research Database,
– Handbook – “The method (model) of mentoring between teachers in secondary and high schools” with the Supplement,
– Training Kit – “Manual: Training for Teachers Mentors”,
– Guidelines – “How to implement mentor model in the school. – Tips for the schools”,
– Memorandum of Understanding.
are published and available on the project’s website http://edu-mentoring.eu in English language, and the Handbook, Training Kit, Guidelines and Memorandum of Understanding are also translated into the partners’ languages. The access to the products is free, and the rules of the use are described by the open license Creative Commons 4.0.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 255136,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Krakowskie Centrum Zarzadzania i Administracji Sp. z o.o. & Country: PL

Project Partners

• DIEFTHYNSI DEFTEROVATHMIAS EKPEDEFSIS NOMOU FTHIOTIDAS
• XXI INVESLAN, S.L.
• UNIVERSITATEA LUCIAN BLAGA DIN SIBIU
• INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE LISBOA
• KUTAHYA IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU