MENTOR TRAINING PILOT: CASE STUDIES

Mentoring is one of the most important guidance practices for novice teachers starting their professional career in teaching. Compared to some other countries' school policies, in Slovakia no complex mentor training programme for mentor support has been developed so far. The authors' interest in mentors' roles has been reflected in a recent research on mentors' competences. One of its results was a set of training materials intended to support mentors' development. The aim of the paper is to present qualitative data from a mentor training pilot in which usefulness and quality of a selected number of tasks were tested. In two case studies, the paper presents the ways in which the seminars were run and describes the reactions of the participants to the tasks, presents their opinions and suggestions regarding mentor training.