MENTRA - E4

E4 - DISSEMINATION MULTIPLIER EVENT FOR MENTORS

Venue: Faculty of Education, Esterhazy Károly Catholic University in Eger (HU)
Date: 24 June 2022
Number of participants: 50 Hungarian teachers and 2 Slovak teachers

The aim of the event was to disseminate and verify one of the outputs of the project (O2) - training materials for teachers (mentors) and discuss selected materials with the target group.

The target group was mentors, i. e. teachers guiding and supervising will-be-teachers or novice-teachers, with professional and personal experience, but also school head teachers. In Eger, at the dissemination event, they focused on lower and upper-secondary school teachers. School head teachers, mainly from Hungary, had a fruitful discussion within the whole group.

Program (the event was planned with the following content):
8.15 - 8.45 Registration of participants, monitoring expectations of the participants (Interview and Questionnaire)
9.00 - 9.05 Welcome of the participants opening the event by the Dean of the Faculty of Education of EKCU - Zoltán Szüts, PhD.
9.05 - 9.15 Mentor training at the EKCU - Irén Virág, PhD.
9.15 - 9.30 Presentation of the MENTRA project - Zsolt Mogyorósi, PhD.
9.30 - 11.00 Workshop 1 - Testing mentor training materials (intellectual outputs O1 and O2):
- group 1 in room 112 - workshop leader: Dr Orgoványi-Gajdoš Judit
- group 2 in room 214 - workshop leader: Dr Szücs Ida
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 - 13.00 Workshop 2 - Testing mentor training materials (intellectual outputs O1 and O2):
- group 2 in room 112 - workshop leader: Dr Orgoványi-Gajdoš Judit
- group 1 in room 214 - workshop leader: Dr Szücs Ida
13.00 - 13.30 Awarding Certificates, monitoring experience and findings of the participants (Interview and Questionnaire), Closure of the program
13.30 - 14.00 Lunch

At the end of the event, the participants received Certificates and some gifts (book vouchers and a Hungarian version of the Mentor training textbook, pen, notebook) and of course a hot lunch.

The feedback from interviews and questionnaires will be used as inspiration for future re-editions of the training materials and for CPD courses on mentor training.

The event and its results were disseminated via a newsletter - Multiplier event newsletter_EKCU (29 June 2022): https://uni-eszterhazy.hu/egyetem/mentorkepzes-nemzetkozi-egyuttmukodesben--szakmai-nap and a TV broadcast (28 June 2022): https://www.facebook.com/liceumtv/videos/579386837033110