Evaluation of Mentoring in Thought and Action Program for Secondary School Mentor-Teachers from Their Perceptions

Abstract

The primary aim of this study was to find out how the Yemeni secondary school mentor-teachers perceived ""Mentoring in Thought and Action"- a mentoring program implemented by the Ministry of Education and conducted in the academic year 2014. To get adequate data, the descriptive methodology was used. The data were gathered through a questionnaire containing 25 closed-ended questions and two open-ended ones. Twenty mentor-teachers who joined this program were chosen purposefully to participate in this study. The results showed that the participants had positive perceptions towards the mentoring program with a total (M=3.20 & SD= 1.11) in spite of some difficulties happened in the same year. Recommendations called policy makers, educational authorities, and school administrators to support the mentoring process either formally or informally by means of conducting further mentoring programs, workshops, discussions, visits, etc. to improve the quality of English language teaching and learning in the Yemeni situation.