CAPACITY BUILDING FOR MENTORING IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BASICS OF THE “YEARS OF ASCENT” PROGRAM

As part of mentoring supervision, on September 30, 2020, an online supervision meeting was held with 44 mentors, who were engaged in the first cycle of providing support to preschool institutions (11 PI), or will be engaged in the upcoming mentoring cycle (22). Prof. Zivka Krnjaja presented the findings of the analysis of the mentor’s report from the first cycle at the meeting, and gave guidelines for work in the new cycle.

In order to further develop the competencies of mentors, on October 14 and 21, 2020, in the hotel “Kristal” in Belgrade, two one-day trainings were realized (for two groups of mentors due to the epidemiological situation), on the topic: “Constructive communication – strengthening the capacity for mentoring “.

In the period from 10.00 to 18.00, the training of mentors was realized through the following topics and activities:

• • Decentration and understanding of needs;
• • Language of positive action;
• • Active listening techniques for overcoming communication challenges;
• • Challenging situations and potential problems and the ways of finding constructive solution;
• • Constructive feedback; alliance building.

The trainers were Dr. Jelena Vranjesevic and Dr. Lidija Miskeljin from the Department of Pedagogy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Both educators and participants were highly motivated to work and exchange ideas with each other.