Mentoring in Teaching Education: Current Transformations and Trends

Abstract

Abstract The modern educational space positions pedagogical mentoring as an essential component of the professional development support system for educational practitioners. The article analyzes leading trends in pedagogical education, revealing the role of mentoring as a powerful tool for enhancing teacher training for the 21st century in the context of the development of the innovative educational process in higher education. The research was conducted based on methods of pedagogical observation, selfreflection, comparative analysis of constructive foreign experience (Germany, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Moldova, the United States) and Ukrainian experience in pedagogical mentoring. It involves summarizing the results of surveys and testing of participants in the educational process to determine the decisive role of the creative teacher as a subject of mentoring in the formation of a young teacher of an innovative type. The constructive ideas are characterized by the creative implementation of which will contribute to the self-effectiveness of such a social institution as pedagogical mentoring, strengthening the positive dynamics of the formation of an innovative-type teacher in the face of contemporary challenges. Deepening scientific concepts about the system of pedagogical support for the process of professional development of future teachers in higher education and effective mentoring tools in general education institutions will allow providing education professionals with scientifically grounded recommendations aimed at constructive pedagogical mentoring as a resource for the formation of a modern teacher of an innovative type.