On Pedagogical Support for the Adaptation of Senior Adolescents to the Subordinate Environment of Suvorov Military Schools of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

The article actualises the issue of adaptation of senior adolescents to the hierarchically structured different-age environment of the Suvorov Military Schools of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The article searches for the optimal method of pedagogical support of freshmen adaptation based on the analysis of special literature. Mentoring is proposed as such a method. The form, means and mechanisms of pedagogical support of adaptation of senior teenagers are described, as well as the approbation of the proposed innovations on the basis of one of the schools. The obtained diagnostic results allow us to state the effectiveness of pedagogical support with the help of mentoring.