The Importance Of Mentoring And Coaching

1. Introduction

In order to compete under the globalization era, the importance of private tutoring teachers to learn and master required competences in 21st century is noticeable. This essay is going to discuss why and how to apply mentoring and coaching program for teachers in order to improve their communication skill.

1.1 Definition of mentoring and coaching

Garvey (2004) stated that under educational, social or other occupational area, the phenomenon called “helping” grows day by day. Mentoring and coaching are two of the three main terms to describe the “helping” behaviors. Mentoring is regarded as an educational process which gets help from a more experienced colleague from the same industry or profession (Dexter, Dexter, & Irving,

These “helping” behaviors works on the relationship between mentee and mentor or coach and coachee. Besides, this relationship can make significant contribute to the development through the mentee or the coach supportive. The relationship can also have the opposite effect (Garvey, 2004, p16).

For the differences between mentoring and coaching, mentoring may involve an element of coaching. Mentoring contract has the elements of advice, guidance and training in it compare to the coaching contract. At this point, an important distinction must be made,

“mentoring generally has an agenda of ensuring that the client reaches a certain, prescribed standard within an identified range of activities rather than looking to help someone achieve their potential for its own sake.” (Garvey, 2004, p16)

Therefore, mentoring can be served as effective tool for an organization to help new staff to learn responsibilities and skills of their job, what is more, to discover and reach their potential.

2. Mentoring

First one is as a result of selected a marginally effective teacher would serve to repair his or her shortcoming but not demonstrate the best behavior to the mentee (Daresh, 2003). Fun N’ Friend Co does not have plenty teachers, the candidates for being the mentor are limited. Secondly, the mentoring program is for the novice teacher, the limited numbers of teachers in the company may involve with the internal politics which will focus more on personal promotion rather than giving novice supportive (Dexter, et al, 2011). Last but not lease, mentoring program may increased the workload of experienced teachers, working stress will cause frustrated of the mentor and then mentor may rarely visit mentee or respond to his or her questions, therefore, reduce the effectiveness of the mentoring program (Podsen, et al,