Mentoring secondary school teachers for effective teaching and learning
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2015-07
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Mwangangi, Leonard
Ayot, Henry O.
Kiio, Mueni
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Teachers perform a variety of duties such as implementing the syllabus content, dealing with
classroom management, issue of learners' discipline, integrating students with special needs,
using technology, co-curricular activity and being accountable to various stakeholders of
education. These tasks can be difficult and stressful to smoothly enable teachers perform
there is need for mentoring programs. Mentoring has been described as a nurturing process.
In which a more skilled person serves as a role model by teaching sponsoring, encouraging,
counseling and befriending a less skilled and less experience person i.e. protégé for the
purpose of promoting professional development and efficiency, The overall purpose of
teacher mentoring is to improve teaching and learning process. This study intends to look at
areas of professional development where teachers need mentoring such as policies and
procedures, stakeholders" expectations and analyses of related data such as documents on
policy. Data will be analyzed and inference made. It is expected that mentoring will make
teachers get job satisfaction and be effective in the teaching and the learning process.
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Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Education. Nairobi, Kenya: Kenyatta University, July 14-16, 2015