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I am a primary school teacher from 28 years .I didnt have a mentor when I started working.

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I have just 6 months of teaching in high school. Prior of that, I've worked in the tech industry for a decade. This whole world is new for me and I don't have any mentor. The school were I am is a brand new school, less than 6 years and they are figuring out how to do it. They started a program for learning how to mentor because we want to improve in all ways. It's satisfying to see that the principal is interested in all of us

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ITALY

When I started teaching, I did not receive any kind of tutoring. I was often looking for answers and trying to understand how older teachers behaved. I miss the figure of the tutor and that's why I care about the problem today. I learned on the field how to be a teacher. To date, I have accumulated 27 years of experience and have deepened many educational and psychological issues.

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I learned everything on my own. It was a hard process. As i joined eTwinning at 2009 my English was not enough to understand everything.But in time i improved and now i am trying to help my collegues.

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I am a chemistry teacher .
When I started this job I had not a mentor .
I think a mentor is very important for a young teacher .In present I help a lot of young teachers for this activity.

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ROMANIA
I have been a teacher since 1999. At the moment I am a director and, in the past, I have helped my colleagues in the past. I have not actually been a mentor, so far.

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Here, in Romania, the mentoring is a new concept. To teach and to learn in the same time how  to teach is the way we all have to go for at the beginning. As a future primary school teacher I was lucky to have some mentors in high school, some of them were local guides and one or two educational companions. I never felt like being part of a collaborative school environment.

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when i started this job there were no mentors. I had my senior collegues who helped me in the school where i was working.

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I started to work in 1998 and I did not have a mentor,but I have my collegues who helped me.

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Ioana Munteanu,Romania      I have been a primary school teacher for 16 years and have been and are constantly concerned with my improvement as a teacher and I didn't have a mentor when i started working.

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Ioana Munteanu,Romania      I have been a primary school teacher for 16 years and have been and are constantly concerned with my improvement as a teacher and I didn't have a mentor when i started working.

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I started working in 2000 and I ahave been teaching for 17 years now. I didn't have a mentor and it was really difficult at the beginning because I couldn't answer anyone about teaching methods.

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I'am a primary sch
ool teacher from 34 years. I did not have a mentor when I started working.

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I start working in 2003 in a special school and I didn”t have a mentor. It was difficult for me but  I had great colleagues who helped me.

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I started working in 2003 and I didn't have a mentor.

It was difficult but I learned the one from the mistakes.

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In my first year of work I did not have a mentor, only my colleagues and the teachers from high school. After that, I discover the primary school inspector and she showed me how to go to courses.

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In my first year of work- 1988 I didn`t have a mentor,  but I had  great colleagues who helped me. I relied on them, I observed them…During the time I studied, I was searching better solutions for learning, I have perfected my skills and I put them to use. I `ve done these because I love children and what I am doing!!

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I started teaching in 2006 and I am glade to say that I had the opportunity to have a sort of mentor in my school. It was an older romanian teacher who gave me some advices about what teaching is about. I tried to learn from each teacher with experience that I knew and to apply to my classes all the things I've learned... Now I woul like to share my professional experience with begginer teachers.

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At the beginning of my teaching career, I would have liked to benefit from the support of a mentor ... I wish to share my professional experience with the beginners, those who will carry forward the holy mission of the Educator and at the same time,to continue professional developement.

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I started working in 1987, and I didn't have a mentor or even a guide. I had to learn by doing, though I had very nice colleagues that tried to help in difficult situations.

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My first teaching year was on the 3rd year of the university , I taught Romanian in a high school. The hardest thing was that no one ever came into my classroom to tell me if I teach students as I shoul do it. The second year was no different, just that I already began teaching English , too. Then, in the summer vacation, I had the opportunity to take part at a course for English teachers, with mentors from Hungary and Romania. At that moment , I reevaluated my teching techniques, learnt from my collegues, and from that time on, I searched for the more experienced teachers to learn from them. My mentors were mostly local gides and educational companions.

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I had not a mentor at the beginning of my teaching career. It was needed a mentor to guide me in the beginning. Because mentor lacked I perfected permanent and I observed and analyzed by experienced colleagues and I learned how to teach step by step.

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I have been teaching for 10 years now and I was lucky to have had the chance to work with two great mentors. The first one guided me as I was just a student and helped me assimilate the way to teach Romanian to foreigners using just the target language. The second one was one of the tutors in my CELTA course in Munich, and it was a great opportunity to have been mentored by him. Only recently I have realised how important is to have someone to guide you, and create a safe environment for everyone to continuously learn how to teach.

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I did not have a mentor during my first years of teaching, unfortunately, but I met some great teachers in the school where I started my activity and learned a lot from them. I have stolen teaching skills by observing the most experienced colleagues work

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I did not have a mentor during my first years of teaching, unfortunately, but I met some great teachers in the school where I started my activity and learned a lot from them. I have stolen teaching skills by observing the most experienced colleagues work

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Nina, Romania                When I started teaching, 18 years ago, I had no mentor. It was very difficult because i I learned from my own

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Nina, Romania                When I started teaching, 18 years ago, I had no mentor. It was very difficult because i I learned from my own

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mistakes.

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Unfortunately, when I started teaching, almost 17 years ago, I didn't have any mentor. It was hard,but I made it. Today I am a experienced teacher, and I think I can share my knowledge and my experiences  with the young teacher from all over the word.

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when I stardet teching kindergarten 30 years ago I did have my mentor  (she was teacher of kindergarten)

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when I started teaching almost 30 years ago I didn't have any mentor. There was one person who was in charge for new teachers but she didn't help me at all. It was very difficult to learn to teach and i did it with the help of the students I met during all the years. Thing are changing also in italy and i have been the mentor for new teachers in my school. I found a great resource in the world of eTwinning where teachers can share ideas and experiences where peer education involves teacher and students at the same time. I think a mentor should be an agent of change for the school not only for the mentes

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I teach for 30 years, 19 in primary school and 11 in high school. The first year of teaching I had a tutor but did not help me in class work. When I started teaching at high school instead I did not have the tutor.

It was difficult to work alone.

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I have never had a mentor. I started my work as a teacher in 1978 and I was very well received by my colleagues. They gave to me many advices and support me in my teaching work. In 1990, I changed the school, in Bucharest, where the work as a teacher is different from the village schools. No mentor even I needed one. I learned from the others teachers, by doing, by observing them or through our pedagogical meetings.

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Yes, a had a mentor for a weekin my first year as a teacher and a have learn a lot from her.

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I had a mentor; it was a local guide and an educational companion. I didn't have any teaching experience and her support was important for me.

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i don't have a mentor and our parents need to pay for a private teachers

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NO I HAVEN''T GOT ANY MENTOR UNFORTUNATELY.

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I have never had a mentor but I have had very nice colleagues that helped me a lot when I was a young teacher.

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Unfortunately i didn't have any mentors. That's the way the school system was then projected. I had only to go to a number of classes of some experienced teacher and assist..

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I have never been an official mentor, but there have been contextual activities.

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When I started working, in 1987, I didn't have a mentor or even a guide. I had to learn by doing, though I had very nice colleagues that tried to help in difficult situations. Then, 7 years later, I started my training period and then I had two mentors that were both exceptional and I'm very grateful to them for what they taught me.

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I did not have a mentor during my first years of teaching, unfortunately. However, I met some great teachers in the school where I started my activity and learned a lot from them.

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I did have a mentor for my PhD studies. When i started the school I was trying mentoring was implemented by principals and I can say that it was not a real mentoring

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When I started working as a teacher, I had a mentor, but she was a local guide; I think it would have been more useful for me to have a real mentor, sharing with me good practises and making me feel safe. I always try to be a mentor for my new colleagues, as much as I can.

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I was a local guide, being asked to assess different teachers , and I thought it was a good idea, besides assessing, to show the mentees what I thought they had done well and things they could have done different.

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A rare case of luck

At the beginning of my teaching career, I had to complete one year of practical training at a school. I had one mentor for each of my subjects.  They were true agents of change as they were supportive, helped me implement my own ideas and were open to everything I suggested. We’ve established a very close relationship and have been working together as colleagues ever since – which is really great. Sometimes one of my mentors tried to interfere with my lessons, which I learnt to regard as a sign of showing support instead of a deliberate disruption of my lessons.

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I never had a mentor.Unfortunately

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Olivia, Romania.  Unfortunately, I could not benefit from the help of a mentor. My first teaching years have been guided by my colleagues and my headmaster. In addition I started attending courses. I was lucky! 

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Olivia, Romania.  Unfortunately, I could not benefit from the help of a mentor. My first teaching years have been guided by my colleagues and my headmaster. In addition I started attending courses. I was lucky! 

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Did you have a mentor when you started teaching or joined a new school? What type of mentoring did you receive (see above)? What did you like/dislike about the mentoring you received?
In Italy only when you have been hired with permanent contract you are helped by a tutor.
So I didn't have a mentor, but I think it is quite common that we usually find some experienced teachers on whom we can rely on.

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In my first years of teaching, unfortunately I didn't have a mentor in my school as I was the only English teacher around. I had to learn to do things by surfing the internet and I had no one to ask if I was doing things right or wrong

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My mentor was totally unintereted for the mentor-mentee relationship. She let me come to her 2 lectures and that was all. So, apparently there is the fourth type of mentor, too.

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In my first year of work I did not have a mentor. But at school I attended many hours where I attended, then I taught, and our teachers explained our mistakes. In the school where I started my activity, I helped my colleagues

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I hav'nt a mentor in my school and i think it should be there because i fell the necessity to dialogue about the school and what we need to make better our teaching

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I didn't have a mentor when I started teaching, but there was a person to whom I asked for any doubt.  When you teach you have to work and learn at the same time and I think it is useful to have a mentor who can help you during your "work in progress".

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I've started working at the school immediately after high school graduation. It was in 1989.year. Back then, the name mentor - was not was - specialist. Me as a teacher the work by the school principal and the subject teacher. All this time I work at school. I'm helping his colleagues in solving the issue. For several years I was a science subject methodical commission of the driver, currently the principal deputy in the field of education.

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When I started teaching (6 years ago), the principle told me names of the colleagues who I was supposed to ask if I had a problem or a question. It was one person for each of the subject I teach. We discussed the curriculum,  what I should each in which grade and from time to time I came to them with a question regarding my lessons. But it wasn't really mentoring, just a few five minute consultations once we had discussed the curriculum and got the school year started.

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I haven't had a mentor since I have started working as a teacher. I develop myself through participation in various courses, webinars, reading articles, magazines and exploring resources provided through the internet.

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I have had no mentoring before I got qualified as a teacher that is as a senior student. Still, I’ve had a lot of pedagogy and self-development seminars, I read articles, teachers’ magazines and books on teaching and discipline practices. Last, but not least, I’ve had senior colleagues that let me observe their teaching and discuss it afterwards! Feeling grateful for that!

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I had two mentors during my PGCE course in Italy and one on my first year of full-time teaching. They encouraged me and showed me the ropes, so they were acting more as local guides. I could see they loved being in class with their students and were highly professional, but I couldn't help sensing a sort of disillusionment about the education system in Italy.

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I was lucky enough to have a great mentor when preparing to become a teacher, that is as a university student. She taught me great things and encouraged me throughout. Then, later on, when I started teaching, I had the chance to be guided by one of the greatest teachers ever. She taught me how to teach and learn at the same time. Grateful to both of them :)

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In my first teaching year I had a good mentor that introduced me into the school and guide me in the new job.
In my teaching matter I had a mentor very good in theory but scarcely innovative!

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Yes ,when I was a student a had a month period of time to  learn how to teach . ere two mentor teachers that learned a lot  to me.

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Dana Dobre, Romania,  I am a lucky person. In my scientific career I met a special person who guide me in my job. It is my universitar teacher, Ioan Negulescu. Only a Thank you! is not enough for all that he means to me. 

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Dana Dobre, Romania,  I am a lucky person. In my scientific career I met a special person who guide me in my job. It is my universitar teacher, Ioan Negulescu. Only a Thank you! is not enough for all that he means to me. 

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I had the chance to meet a great mentor, while I was starting my career. I discovered then critical thinking and innovating methods. She inspired me and I think of her as an agent of change. 

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It has been important for me to do experience both the situations, mentee and mentor, in a few time and with the same people: I am an university student, and I have taken a Teacherdojo by my professors and assistants, and they let me playing with Scratch and "wow" "great" "how did you do this"... I was confused and happy, I was doing and learning to do, I felt afraid and curious. A few months later they proposed me to be a mentor in a Teacherdojo, I felt afraid and curious, and also the mentee teachers were so... we felt the same feelings, and I felt I was there to rejoice with them because they were there to do and learning by doing it :D

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It has been important for me to do experience both the situations, mentee and mentor, in a few time and with the same people: I am an university student, and I have taken a Teacherdojo by my professors and assistants, and they let me playing with Scratch and "wow" "great" "how did you do this"... I was confused and happy, I was doing and learning to do, I felt afraid and curious. A few months later they proposed me to be a mentor in a Teacherdojo, I felt afraid and curious, and also the mentee teachers were so... we felt the same feelings, and I felt I was there to rejoice with them because they were there to do and learning by doing it :D

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Helena R., Portugal

My teaching degree included a school year as a trainee in a public school and two mentors were assigned simultaneously for the task. Unfortunately there was little cooperation between them and each had a very different view of what a mentor and a teacher should be. All in all it was quite an eye opening experience.

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I had  a mentor,really thinks as an agent of change

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I had  a mentor,really thinks as an agent of change

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Having a mentor is a vital role nowadays. Personally I had no a mentor but as a teacher I can clearly see the need for mentors to get involved in the process of learning at schools

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Having a mentor is a vital role nowadays. Personally I had no a mentor but as a teacher I can clearly see the need for mentors to get involved in the process of learning at schools

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Yes, I had a mentor and she was the headmistress of the school where I taught. She was important for my teaching and she was an educational companion and a local guide too. It was important to know how the thing worked in the school.

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Lory, Italy

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I did not have a mentor, but I had a great colleague who helped me at the new school a lot. I still appreciate all the information she shared with me

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Unfortunately I belong to the group of people who wished to have a mentor but didn't. I always try however, to share anything I know with colleagues who seem to be interested. In particular, although I'm not an etwinning ambassador I support my colleagues with their projects and share my etwinning acquired knowledge and experience.

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil 

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil 

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I never had a mentor, I graduated more than 30 years and we had the encyclopedias to consult.
I read the books and imagined myself to be in that place and always tried to make my students feel the same way.
Today we have technologies that can help us.

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In my working experience (not related to teaching) I never had a mentor. In all the new jobs I faced I was helped by colleagues (sometimes) while the employers (such as a managing director) only were in charge to control my work.

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I started teaching as an alternate in 1987.
I didn't had  any mentor,but I was always looking for the help of my colleagues.Looking at the work of older teachers helped me to reflect on what I had to do and do it better  than the ways.
I had a mentor for one year in 1994.
I learned a lot because he encouraged many moments of reflection and led me not be afraid to use innovative strategies and to rely on students work.
Two years ago I have been mentor for the first time.I tried to help my menthe,never replacing her
Taught her to listen her students, to adapt each lesson to their needs,giving them tasks according to their age and level training.
Again this year I have been a mentor for a new teacher and I hope to have been a good companion in this scholastic experience.

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My first experience as a mentee has been when I did my training as a Portuguese Language Teacher. It was a great experience because I had the liberty to plan my practice but it was always supported by the analytical perspective of my mentor, a person with significant experience. We shared ideas, plans, strategies and even implemented several activities together.  It was a really productive collaboration relation through which you could present your doubts, fears and ideas and have an immediate assessment of it with the focus on supporting you and helping you to learn more and more. I must also say that my mentor was someone that was also whiling to learn from me and that believed that the learning process was both ways. It was one of the best mentee/mentor experience I have ever had and truly shaped me and my practice.

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I have a mentor when I was studiing my career.

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I had different levels of experiences when I was at school for the first time. A very good experience with the local mentor, that support at all levels, and a not so good experience with the mentors from the University, that don't gave enough support in time and quality.

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I had, right from the start, a wonderful and extraordinary mentor. He was, at the time,  a teacher-colleague but also the pedagogical director of the school. Based on the Professor Feiman-Nemser’s ideas of types of mentor, he was all three and marked my professional life as teacher! I tried to follow his footsteps and "became" myself, in some sort and for many years, a mentor for the new teachers...

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Yes, I have a Mentor, long time ago...

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When studying for my Bachelors' Degree in Pedagogy and Elementary Education, attended teacher training in classroom under the supervision of mentor. It was interesting to see how theory relates to practice.

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As a newly appointed teacher I had no mentor to support me officially, but found a colleague after a couple of years who was trully inspirational and followed her example. So I guess she was more of an agent of change and lit a spark inside of me. I wish I had a mentor to lead my path in this profession. This is the reason why I am always eager to be a mentor myself with newbies.

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I did not have a mentor when I started working. Yet, there were some people who gave me some advice which I fund useful for my job as teacher and still follow it.

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When I started teaching I didn't have a mentor

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When I started teaching, 20 years ago, I didn't have a mentor.

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In the first year of teaching I didn't have a mentor and it was difficult with a new work.

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In Romania I did not have a mentor in the first year of teaching and it was not easy...

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I didn't have a mentor when I first started working and i think it would be easier if I had it.

Mentoring new teachers wasn't considered so important.

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I had a mentor when I started teaching. My mentoring was only in theory beouse in really she didn't guide my work

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I did not have a mentor and nobody was willing to help me. I had to cope myself. Probably that's why I decided to be a mentor myself and find out how to help others effectively.

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When I started my work as a Teacher I had a good mentor in a teacher that helped me to know my goals and how I can teach.

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When I started teaching we had a generic mentor that organised training on behaviour management etc.  however, I felt that she was not approachable and often difficult to locate if I had any queries.

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When I started teaching we had a generic mentor that organised training on behaviour management etc.  however, I felt that she was not approachable and often difficult to locate if I had any queries.

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I think my shadow mentors were my teachers from school when I was a student. When I started to teach I acted just as my teachers wanted to be with me. I also learned many things from my mentors in the years of preparation for the teaching activity.

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In Greece there are no mentors. If you are lucky an experienced teacher will give you some advice.

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In did not have a mentor. Help me older colleages and the director.

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I hadc a mentor in my early years as teacher. He was an example for me and he was a change agent.

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In my early years of teaching I did not have a mentor in computer science. I learned from books and from tutorials of the Internet. I hope I'm a good mentor for my students.

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When I started teaching 18 years ago, There wasn't any kind of idea of mentoring in schools. My collegue was for me the best mentor during the first 8 years of my work.
She was very important for me and she is still now an example .

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When I started teaching I had an educational companion and it really helped me in making my first steps in teaching, while keeping an eye on what I will become .

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I still have a mentor, even i have 13 years of teaching, first as a local guide, then she let me do my job as an agent of change

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when I started teaching, 10 years ago, I was not aware of my new job and responsibilities. I found people who helped me, in a uninformal way, I was lucky, they adopted me and through observation and some gentle guidance, I found my way. I still have them in my heart!

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When I started teaching at school over 20 year ago, I received some tips on the teaching methods from my older colleague. Fortunatelly, during my studies, some of my lessons at school were observed and I was given the feedback with detailed assessment of my work. It was a very valuable experience.