You can enjoy the recording of the first webinar we held on 15th January, 2014.

Thanks to all who have participated in this fantastic event. I was deeply honoured to be part of this.

Introductions: Jo Gakonga

We are very excited to have Jo on the #mentorevo session. Here's her introduction for you to enjoy.

Your first task

We are very excited to have so many wonderful teachers signing up for this session and we are very much looking forward to learning with you.

As your fist task, we would like you to spend a little time filling out this questionnaire.





This will help you consider some aspects of mentoring and give us some food for thought and discussion for the next few weeks.

We are looking forward to reading and discussing your responses.

Have a great weekend.

A great interview with a mentor

I have only recently come across The Amazing Teacher Podcast. Every episode I have listened to so far has a lot of relevance to #mentoring.
This however is definitely one you would find interesting and useful. Great conversation about how mentors can help young teachers avoid burnout and keep up their enthusiasm.

Danielle Mizuta is the State lead mentor with the Hawaii Department of Education Teacher Leadership Institute. (Find her on Twitter here.)
Let us know what you think.

#mentorevo love - 2 Wordles

We are in the middle of the registration week and it's been heartywarming to see the number of people signing up and showing interest in mentoring.

It was also exciting to see the names and all the places participants have come from, so here's a worlde of those, too.

Valerie's Introduction

+Valerie Jakar's Prezi gives you a tiny peek at her passion for teacher education for over 30 years. We are very excited to have her on the #mentoerevo team.

Maizie's Introduction

+Maizie Avihayil created a wonderful Glog to introduce herself. Have a look.



(If you can't see the poster, click here to find it.)

Happy new year - Are you ready for #mentorevo?

The official sign-up is starting tomorrow. We are looking forward to talking about mentoring with you.

Have a great new year.

These are some characteristics of mentors

Which do you find the most important, do you have any examples of you needing these skills and characteristics?

Our first real-time event

We are very excited to confirm that our first real-time event will take place on Blackboard collaborate and our partners will be the brand new Mentoring Special Interest Group of IATEFL Hungary.

Hungary has been a hotbed for mentoring in ELT. Caroline Bodoczky and Angi Malderez started their work on mentor courses in the early 1990s in Hungary when they worked with some of the pioneers of English Language Teaching in Hungary. Their book for mentor courses has been an essential part of in- and pre-service professional development courses ever since.

Since then mentoring as a means of professional development has been a very important component of training courses in Hungary.

Hundreds of novice English teachers have taken part in mentor courses in Hungary, which eventually led to the creation of a Special Interest Group in IATEFL Hungary with the support of two champions of mentoring in Hungary: Judit Revesz and Uwe Pohl.

We invited the Mentoring SIG to share their experiences with organising, conducting and being participants of mentoring courses.

Some of the topics we are going to discuss with them:
1. Why mentoring?
2. How did it start?
3. What has kept it going?
4. What are the aims of the SIG?
5. How can mentoring be integrated into one's personal and professional development agenda?

We will also have trainers and participants from mentor courses share their experiences, and some anecdotes.

A bonus is that the Mentor SIG will sign in from the American Embassy in Budapest, Hungary, thanks to the generous support of the Regional English Language Office, especially George M. Chinnery and Gergő Sántha. (They are also on Facebook)

We hope you will be able to join  us if you have any questions or comments, leave a comment and we'll make sure to ask them at the event.

Welcome

We are very excited to welcome you to one of the online spaces we will use in our new Mentoring EVO session in 2014.

Before the action kicks in in earners on 13th January, you can sign up for the session here, you can find our Facebook Page here and our Facebook Group here.

This blog is run by the whole team and we we encourage participants to share their reflections and their answers to the weekly discussions here. We are very happy to host mentoring related-guest posts from present and past EVO participants and anyone with a shared passion for mentoring in ELT.

Our first (get-to-know you) task is to tell us

3	things everyone needs to know about you
2	things only few people know about you
1	reason for joining the mentoring EVO session

Here's Tamas's introduction from last year as a taster.

You can use any platform or technical solution from pen and paper to shooting your own video.
If you need help, let us know: mentor.evo@gmail.com.