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In 1999 I took the first tenure exam, in our education system it is the first step towards becoming a teacher. No one prepared us but theoretically for what we had to do as teachers, the pedagogical practice was honored only in the last year of college, so all we had to do was train ourselves or through a few open lessons given by our colleagues in other schools. What we learned, in theory, does not ”kiss” what we had to do practically, so we trained ourselves.

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I had an excellent mentor when I started at my current school. She was really helpful in that she always started with what I was doing well before she made suggestions for improvement.

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I had an excellent mentor when I started at my current school. She was really helpful in that she always started with what I was doing well before she made suggestions for improvement.

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Hi. When I started working ,I had no official mentor but some of my colleagues played that role ! They were of a great help indeed.

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Hi, I currently work in a primary school as an teaching assistant and mentoring. Where we speak to kids about emotions and handling their feelings. The goals is to become a qualified mentor so I can do one to ones with kids mentoring. 

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Hi, I currently work in a primary school as an teaching assistant and mentoring. Where we speak to kids about emotions and handling their feelings. The goals is to become a qualified mentor so I can do one to ones with kids mentoring. 

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When I began my University as a student teacher I had a mentor who was very good at it and made sure that she makes a change on us and she became one of my closest people.

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I didn't have a mentor when I first started to work at school. I do have it know, an external person who's supporting me through daily challenges.

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i have one but he is not effective one

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My mentor in my school is my freand

That helps me communicate to solve any problem and difficulty. Are the many trainings we receive for professional development

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I am a mentor teacher in my education ministry's project.
I support teachers during education .

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Danny, Indonesia
I have a mentor who is also my coordinator.

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im a mentor teacher in my education ministry's project

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im a mentor teacher in my education ministry's project

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I had a mentor when I started teaching students.
It was overwhelming, but professional. I learned a lot during that time.

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iìam a tutor

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I had a mentor and He became my best friend at school. Twelve years ago.

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I haven't been a mentor before and I hadn't a mentor before.

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I haven't been a mentor before and I hadn't a mentor before.

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When I started teaching, I had no mentor. but my collegues helped a lot.

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My mentor was a teacher who helped me with the essentials at school.

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I haven't been a mentor  so far but when I started teaching I had a mentor who helped me with some teaching methods for classroom management. It was useful for my further work but I hadn't been on a level I would have wanted.

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I had a mentor who I basically shadowed for a year. I was more passive in the classroom but more active as a paper corrector. Another mentor I had years later gave me explicit feedback. What I liked about the first mentor was that I had the time to observe; with the later one, I received honest feedback.

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Whwn I started working I had no mentor , but some of my collegues played that role. It helped me a lot.

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When I started working ,I had no official mentor but some of my colleagues played that role !!!
They were of a great help indeed.

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 I had a mentor and i was also supported by my colleagues ... i was continuously asking them questions and they provided me with answers and help. i benefited alot from their experiences

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 I had a mentor and i was also supported by my colleagues ... i was continuously asking them questions and they provided me with answers and help. i benefited alot from their experiences

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Ididn t have a mentor at the beggining of my carrier, but I had the support of my colleagues. They helped a lot

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Ididn t have a mentor at the beggining of my carrier, but I had the support of my colleagues. They helped a lot

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I had a mentor when I started and I had learned a lot.

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When I started working in my first school, I have a mentor...I was lucky. It was a nice experience because she helped me to understand how everything works.

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I didn't have a mentor when I started teaching, but I was helped by other teacher to learn how to teach.

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I haven't had any experience in mentoring but I think it is important to do it

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it is very important mentoring in school but unfortunately we cant give enough importance to it

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There has been no formal mentoring in any of the schools I have worked, but I really wish I would have had one and I am looking forward to being able to do something about that by becoming a mentor for future colleagues

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I didn't have an official mentor but teachers I accompanied and in whose classes I was able to teach. From these teachers I learned the ropes of teaching and they gave me feedback on lesson I gave. But I wouldn't call that professional mentoring.

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No mentors in schools in Greece. Teachers have the responsibility to search the answers of their questions or to ask for help from their colleagues

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I work as a primary school teacher and I am a Deputy Director at my school.I am a kind of mentor for students that want to become primary schoo teachers

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When I first started my job, I had an amazingly passionate and kind mentor who is still my role-model :) She helped me, guided me and tried to help me to see the best in myself, which is not very easy at the beginning of a career. Although it was 10 years ago, I still can remember my speeches with her :)

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In our country there is not really the mentor, but we help each other

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When I started, I didn't had a mentor, but was lucky because I went to work to the school where I did my internship in the course and all the more experienced teachers helped and supported me in the beginning of my profession. I felt safer.

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When I started I had a mentor from which I learned a lot.

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I had a mentor when I started and I had learned a lot.

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When I started teaching I had colleagues who acted as local guides. It was important for me as a young teacher. Then, a couple of years later, I finally became a trainee teacher and I had two mentors throughout a school year who acted both as local guides and educational companions. I liked their guidance and the fact that they shared their knowledge and far as classroom management and lesson planning.

I think that, nowadays, mentors act more as agents of change.

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I didn't have a mentor when I started teaching.I've learned and lıved later.

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Earlier in my life, my mentor was my parents. I've learned and lived later.

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I didnt have a mentor when I started my teaching life.I tried to learn by doing and get benefit from other experienced colleuges.

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I didn't have a mentor when I started teaching.I tried to learn everything on my own via exchanging ideas with experienced colleagues,searching on the net,etc...

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I've been a mentor regarding etwinning since 2013 and in this respect I've always had support from ambassadors or more experienced teachers whenever I didn't know something. As far as being a mentor as an English teacher I have been sometimes, in terms of integrating web tools and PBL in teaching. I need mentoring too as there are many aspects I could and should improve in my teaching. I didn't really have a mentor when I started teaching.

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I had two mentors when I took my teaching master´s degree. One of them belonged to my uni and he did not help me or my classmates, we just appeared "on paper". The other one was a mentor teacher during our aprenticeship, she was really helpful, she scaffolded my resposibilities and little buy little let me participate and take more control of the lessons.

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Local guides, although there was some meetings for all the teachers -of different seniority.

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When I work with teachers who have never taught in the courses I coordinate, I share with them the importance of dialogue with the students, how important is to provide material that is useful for the study but we also talk about evaluation according to clear and shared criteria according to competences, skills and abilities. For this reason I often share with them educational materials that I find useful and a final evaluation sheet created by me, but in open word format, so that every teacher can modify it if he deems it useful.

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I had mentor "on paper" when I first started to work in a school, but he didn't help me at all.

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I didn't have a mentor when I first started working as a teacher but there were some experienced colleagues who helped and empowered me.

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I have never had a mentor. When I began teaching, I had the help of some colleagues and my willingness to learn how to become a good teacher.

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I had a mentor but the most things I  learned myself. It was a really big challenge for me but I enjoyed it. I learned the most by watching colleagues , exploring best examples of practise, sharing thoughts etc....I am a lifelong learner and never give up.

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I didn't have a "specific" mentor when I was started working as a teacher in schools However, I had great mentoring in areas far from education understood as schools, institutes, universities ... that offered me a practical and real vision of how to teach and how to learn

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I have no had mentors. Mentoring is not the practice of the Albanian education. system My mother there has been a teacher and she helped me a lot with her experience.  For technical issue, I can not join the community I'm with agree that, A mentor should always be older than a mentee!

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Unfortunately, it's not part of the Greek system of education to have mentors either as a new teacher or as an experienced one.

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I had no mentors at the beginning of my career, I had difficulties in finding the best tools and strategies of teaching and also with the collaboration practices. I taught myself to find the best ways and self studying does the work.

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I had no mentors and I had difficulties in classroom management, in teaching techniques  and in collaboration practices. I started to study by myself and I still do it.

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When I started teaching I had no mentor. Fortunately I met two colleagues that helped me a lot: they belived in me and shared ideas and tips with me. They also listened to me and to my ideas.

I didn’t feel alone and I begun to find my own way.

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I had two mentors when i started teaching and they had very different perspectives of teaching, sometimes they presented even opposite guidelines. I was working according to what one or the other were expecting and my concern was the assessment they would do on my work. I didn't find it a very good experience.

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I was lucky as I had a great mentor and I found out a lot from her experience. She gave many good and helpful advice.

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I had mentor but it turned out to be of no use.  Unfortunately, I learned nothing, and had to find out things on my own.

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AFTER MY THOUGHT THE METORARY IS ESSENTIAL IN THE PRIMARY EDUCATION. SINCE I WAS PART OF THAT SOMETHING.

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Unfortunatly, I didnt have any mentoring procedure in my first teaching years. I think it whould be better to have one.

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When I started mentoring, I didnt't have a special experience or a mentor. I relied and watched collageues which were experienced. They were my models. I have experiences in online mentoring but also in expert meetings and workshops on various topic.

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I didn’t have a mentor when I started teaching but I relied on experienced colleagues or my teachers as role models and sought training for professional development.

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I have some experiences in online mentoring. I have used e-learning platforms, webinars, and other tools. I think that, due to the lack of time for formal meetings, online mentoring is an important asset to succeed in having continuous contact with mentees, especially if mentor works in different schools. Moreover, online mentoring allows flexibility in managing the time. Anyway, I think online mentoring can’t completely substitute real meetings with the mentee. My ideal is a kind of blended learning, where online and face-to-face approaches integrate each other.

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I have observed recorded lessons during my postgraduate studies and it was a very useful experience. I aggree recording might help you observe your own practices and improve your teaching skills. Furthermore, recording mentee's lessons provide for a rich material on which mentor along with mentee may reflect.

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I didn't have a mentor when I started teaching. Some of my colleagues were friendly and always ready to help or give advice, but some of them weren't.
I myself have only one year of experience as a mentor.

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I didn't have a mentor when I begin teaching. I have changed several schools in my career and i never had a mentor or someone to guide me, because I always was the only CS teacher in the school. So I think that all I have learn is by my experiences in a self-education proccess.

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I didn't have a "specific" mentor when I was started as a teacher nive years ago. Some colleagues used to help me by giving me advices, but unfortunately I think I have learned by myself.

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As a Portuguese and English Teacher, in my training year as a mentee I had five mentors: one of english language from school and another from the university; one of  Portuguese from school and another one from University and the fifth one was the pedagogy mentor from universityu. I must confess that the role they played was one of local guides, who showed me the ropes of the profession.
It was later on in my carreer when I became a mentor that I understood the importance of the role mentors play not only as teachers of teaching but as "agents of change", while mentoring teacher trainees I've tried to make them understand the importance of collaborative work and of the integration of the school vision in teacher practice.

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I had no particular mentor when I started my career as a teacher, but only some experienced colleagues who... "adopted" me and tried to help. But most of the things I learned them by myself.

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In the beginning of my career i had two mentors. One of them was very good, it helps us with his experience. The other wasn’t so good.  But i learnt many things.

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EFFI EFSTATHIOU , GREECE. I didn't have a mentor when i started teaching, but i was asking my collegues for every difficulty i had . They had experience and willingness to help me.  

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EFFI EFSTATHIOU , GREECE. I didn't have a mentor when i started teaching, but i was asking my collegues for every difficulty i had . They had experience and willingness to help me.  

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I have never had a mentor. I had to learn the ropes and all the rest by myself and later on when I became a mentor and mentored my fellow teachers I really tried to do my best not only to show them how to teach but also to show them where and how they can get help or develop further.

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I never get a mentor in the beginning.
But use the guidance of what we got at the Institute and apply it. Also read more about mentoring on several pages. But mine colleagues are the best guidance I got and still getting.

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I started my professional carrier as an assistant in a university. I have lucky for having advisor in the university. But this advisory process is not a professional teaching advisory, it is something more about my thesis. So when I first entered to the classroom I haven't any mentor for teaching. About the theoretical part, of course I had a knowledge but at the beginning I need some feedback and professional support for teaching.

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I didn't really have a mentor when I started working. I have no experience in mentoring.

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No experience in Mentoring

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I didn’t have a proper mentor, yet I have a teacher who helped me out overly my training period.

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I never had a mentor in the beginning of my career and many things had to be learned by myself. If I had the opportunity to go back, I would definitely choose to have a mentor to advise me before I do all thw mistakes I have certainly made. The first two years after finishing the university were the most difficult for me especially in the subject of discipline and informing parents about their children's behaviour and marks. A mentor nowadays is very useful and saves a lot of time and stress...

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I didn't really have a mentor when I started working. I was studying a lot and my two older colleagues helped me out.

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I didn^t have a mentor when I started my activity , 29 years ago. It was a small school and I had just two collegues.

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Throughout the course I had internships in schools with mentor guidance, which helped a lot in preparing for the profession. At the beginning of my career as a teacher I had some colleagues who supported me. Later, when I participated in new projects I found colleagues who supported, helped and guided me in order to collaborate in the best way.
I consider that although I din't have the mentor figure, I found colleagues who helped me develop the practice of teaching.

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When I started to teach , I had several mentors, who helped me a lot, guided me go through the challenging path and find my way.  I am thankful for everything that I learned from them. Teaching strategies and methods that I learned   from them assisted me  to shape my teaching style , which helped me freely express myself and as a teacher help  my colleagues and share whatever I know.

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I didn't have a mentor. 15 years ago, when I started my activity as a preschool teacher there were as called open activities with all colleagues . I think they were a form of mentoring( useful) because at the end we discussed about the way that teacher performed, the materials and teaching tools he used. But the most important things I learned by teaching effectively.

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I did not have a mentor and I felt completely lost in the beginning. I asked my colleagues for help.

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I did have a mentor. She was like a local guide who gave me a lot of practical advices.

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When I was made a permanent teacher I didn't have a mentor. when I was specializing in teaching I had to spend about 30 hours with a mentor, and that was an amazing experience. I have learnt a lot from her; I wish I could have stayed longer with her in her classes. That's why I think mentoring is very important for a trainee teacher and I am doing my best with the mentee.

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When I started in my school, since it follows a project based learning approach (not very common in Portugal), I have a great mentor that is the school director.
She created a school where all teachers can cooperate with each other and come up with the activities of the projects and use them together. There is room for mistakes and reflexion about whar we have learned.
I couldn'd have asked for a better mentor!

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I did not have a mentor.

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i didnot get any help

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When I started teaching in state schools, I had no official mentor but the  official in-service teacher training helped a lot in getting ideas. Actually, one of the teacher trainers was very inspiring for me.

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When I started teaching, I had a mentor, an older colleague of mine. Mentor guided me and helped me to pass the exam.

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Raquel, Spain. I had an excellent mentor teacher and now she is partner.

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When I started teaching  25 years ago, I did not have a mentor. I spent eight years in different schools, teaching at different levels with a diversity of students and systems.
I am currently the teaching tranining coordinator at my school.

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I was lucky to have a great mentor. She taught me a lot. Also, she encouraged me to be creative and independent. I often remember her.

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When I started teaching a have an official mentor.From my perspective she was an excellent mentor.I learn a lot from her and also from my colleagues.I support the idea of mentoring because today I am a mentor and that helps me in my professional growth .

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I didn't have a mentor when I started teaching, so It was difficult for me to adquire some skills even when I was teaching for only one person. However I kept in touch with some other teachers in order not to get lost as an educator. I could say that my mentor was no-one or everyone in the educational community

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When I started working, I had as my mentor my first teacher. Everything I didn”t know or wasn”t sure, it helps me ! Thank you, theacher !

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Miroslava, Croatia	When I started working at the school five years ago as a vocational teacher who worked in the profession for ten years, I was lost. I was entering a new job about which I didn't know much. Initially, I got a mentor who was with me the first year until I passed the professional exam. My mentor belonged to the Educational Companions group. What I loved about my mentor were the methods she used in teaching and her relaxed teaching style. She pointed out the courses I should take to get the tools that will make my classes more creative and make me more confident in the classroom. I'm grateful for that.

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Miroslava, Croatia	When I started working at the school five years ago as a vocational teacher who worked in the profession for ten years, I was lost. I was entering a new job about which I didn't know much. Initially, I got a mentor who was with me the first year until I passed the professional exam. My mentor belonged to the Educational Companions group. What I loved about my mentor were the methods she used in teaching and her relaxed teaching style. She pointed out the courses I should take to get the tools that will make my classes more creative and make me more confident in the classroom. I'm grateful for that.