Mentor's model of competence: the prospects of pre-school education mentors at supervising students' practice

Worldwide teacher training experience illustrates that mentoring is one of the most effective ways to train young pedagogues. A mentor is an experienced pedagogue who professionally helps beginners and practicing pedagogues to develop. A mentor must have a necessary expertise and competence in order to help a young person to seek perfection in his / her profession, acquire practical competence in educating children and successfully start pedagogical career. Scientists give a number of different mentor competence models: the model based on role theory (D. Clutterbuck, 2003), mentor competence functional model (I. J. Podsen, V. M. Denmark, 2000), the model based on typical mentor’s behaviour (Dr Norman, H. Cohen, 1999), the model based on personal characteristics and interpersonal roles (B. Elliott, 1995). As a result, a theoretical mentor’s of pre-school pedagogue model has been created. It is based on the analysis of all mentor competence models in order to project the research for its empirical grounding. The aim of the research – to ground theoretically and empirically mentor’s who supervises the pedagogical practice of pre-school student competenceVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŠvietimo akademij