Tudásmegosztás, egymástól tanulás a Tanítsunk Magyarországért Program kurzusain

Abstract

From 2020, ELTE also participate in the Teach for Hungary Programme, where students mentor young pupils from disadvantaged regions in partner schools in Nógrád and Pest counties. In the spring semester of 2023, 250 mentoring students from 9 ELTE faculties in Budapest support more than 1000 primary school pupils. The students can take the preparatory course as optional, and from the next semester onwards, mentoring will be supplemented by a support seminar, where the actual mentoring experiences will be processed. Thanks to the heterogeneity of the students, both the preparatory and the support courses are based on the principle of learning from each other, mutual knowledge sharing, and sharing elements and practices that work well in mentoring, since it is not uncommon to find former peer helpers and students with experience in higher education mentoring among the candidates. In addition to outlining the key principles of course organisation, this paper seeks to interpret mentoring as a learning process. Then, based on a selection of pedagogical criteria, some of the practices which have been considered successful in mentoring and shared by students are presented and complemented by their reflections.