Mentoring: the Need of Newly Inducted Teachers to Increase Teaching Skills at Primary Level in Iran

The present study is descriptive in nature. The study seeks to clarify the concept of mentor inthe system of education with a view to boost awareness among teachers. The goals of thestudy were to define the term mentoring and introduce it in education system; to bring out thefeatures of Mentors with regards to their professional responsibilities; to developprofessional skills of prospective and newly recruited teachers with the help to proposedstrategy; to convince teachers to choose best practices of teaching; and to give suggestionsand recommendations for the improvement of the study. The study revealed that there was acrucial need to introduce mentoring mechanism in main stream of education at primary levelin Iran. Many gaps were found which included lack of proper mentoring system, need ofprofessional support to the several potential teachers, lack of opportunity to explore career,and poor performance of supervisors in the field. There was no formal system of mentoring invogue in primary system of education at Government level. Similarly, in response to thesecond question, the importance of mentoring in education system was brought home to thestakeholders on the basis of review of literature in local and global perspective.

Keywords:

Mentoring , Inducted Teachers , Teaching Skills , Primary Level