Pradedančio dirbti pedagogo, studento praktikanto mentoriaus profesinis įvaizdis

Abstract

The final master’s degree project work examines a vocational image of a novice educator’s and a trainee student’s mentor. Improving the Educational system in Lithuania, perfecting the preparation of young specialists for a new vocational work, creates the need of experienced educator, custodian who could help a novice educator to step the first steps. Without a doubt mentor’s vocational practice creates a certain mentor’s vocational image. The objective of this project is to examine and reveal the vocational image of a novice educator’s and a trainee student’s mentor. In order to achieve this objective such tasks were set: to use survey research methods to reveal mentor’s vocational self-image and the image he creates; to use survey research methods in order to find out what vocational mentor’s image did a novice educator and a trainee student form; to determine the relation between the vocational mentor’s image and his age, experience and qualification. During the research it was found out that the mentor’s vocational self-image, the vocational image he creates and the vocational image that trainees formed about the mentor is positive. Mentor’s age, experience and qualification influences the vocational mentor’s image.