The focus of growth in mentoring: professional competences of the head of a preschool education

Abstract

The relevance of the article lies in the need to present and introduce Western trends of the scientific foundations of mentoring into the vocational education system, namely preschool educational organizations (PEO) of the Russian Federation. On the world stage, there is a focus on the transformation of the entire educational system expressed in improving the efficiency of educational organizations in accordance with various educational standards: increasing/decreasing the duration of training, revising educational programs and transferring them to a distance format. The domestic experience of research in the field of mentoring (the research was carried out on the basis of the Institute of Psychology and Education of Kazan Federal University) demonstrates modern approaches that can be applied in practice by future and current heads of preschool educational organizations. Long-term research in the field of domestic and foreign mentoring as a factor in increasing the professional competence of novice teachers (Clarin, 2016; Golman, 2019; Whitmore, 2009), as well as teachers with sufficient experience in teaching activities in an educational organization; the study of the “inclusion” of Western methods and techniques of mentoring (budding, shadowing, coaching, advising) in the activities of the head and teaching staff of a preschool educational organization – these and other aspects have been the subject of previous research by the author. The purpose of the article is to apply Western trends in management activities at the level of educational organizations. The article reveals the main approaches of mentoring reflected in the stages: “briefing”, “explication” and “evolution”, in the process of accompanying novice teachers by managers in the practice of the educational organization. The article is for teachers and managers of the education system.