Formal Mentoring Versus Informal Mentoring in Education

Educational mentoring is a challenge for all educational systems, being necessity the continuous optimization of instructive-educational activity carried out by teachers, which why it studied in relation to training and professional development. Mentoring programs are often integrated into broader development at institutional level, essentially based on an project whose results can be measured according objectives set, offered new teachers over variable period time, order improve their chances success. must ensure differentiated approach, as involved make decisions own training, interest or personal teaching styles, configured alongside learning styles students. In this context becomes important identify type that effective possible, either rigorous organization - resulting form formal mentoring, open, unplanned sporadic meetings with more experienced colleagues informal mentoring. The use several tools measure satisfaction mentored (questionnaires, interviews, case studies, etc.) capture dynamics between general perception success failure program (in general) impact specific intervention participants' process