About mentoring in higher education

Abstract

Mentoring has proved most successful in educational practice of the past years and in modern management as a form of increasing professionalism and a technology for effective management. The educational potential of mentoring is based on a person-oriented approach to a developing person, and subject-subject relationships with him. Thanks to mentoring activities, the personal professional competence of students and young specialists is increased through the internalization of positive experience, standards of excellence and values of professionalism. The article describes mentoring models implemented in the modern context. It presents the Mentoring Project developed by A. V. Mordovskaya, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor of the Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University. The practice of implementing mentoring programs in Russian universities is considered.