Mentoring and teachers' professional development: The Case of Secondary Education

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of mentoring on the professional development of secondary education teachers. In the present work, two types of research are carried out, a quantitative study of 200 secondary education teachers, in order to investigate their beliefs on the impact of mentoring on professional development of secondary education teachers, and a qualitative research on secondary education directors in order to have clear and generalized conclusions. The results of the research have shown that mentoring is a very important process for teachers throughout their career. The benefits of the Mentoring program are important as teachers are aware of educational reality and develop problems with problems that arise in the educational unit, while the agonists benefit through the development of collaboration with colleagues, social skills development and teaching skills development.