This study is aimed to develop, implement and assess the effectiveness of e-Mentoring Based Education for Preschool Teachers (e-MENTE: OÖÖ) program. This study is supported by Turkey Scientific and Technological Research Projects Support Program (TUBITAK-1001 Project) with the project number of 115K419.
In the first phase of the project, focus group discussions were realized with 105 preschool teachers to define needs of preschool teachers as a preparation for developing the program. The e-MENTE: OÖÖ training program was designed to meet the needs of the mentees (preschool teachers). The content, objectives, module materials, module preliminary interview questions, module final evaluation questions and discussion questions supporting mentoring process was prepared and uploaded to the Project’s Learning Management System (LMS). "Classroom Observation Form", new version of ECERS – R and “Document Inspection Checklist” were used as pretest and posttest. Besides, module preliminary interview questions, module final evaluation questions and discussion questions will be used for data collection. In the process of implementation, in line with answers given by mentees to the pre-interview questions, resources are shared based on the requirements of mentees by the mentors (researchers) so that developments of mentees are supported. Qualitative data will be analyzed by descriptive analysis and quantitative data will be analyzed by t-test analysis.
When this project is completed, an e-mentoring implementation combining technology and theory will be used for the first time, and the substructure of an e-mentoring system planned at the national level will be prepared and gained to the literature.
This paper is limited to the description of development, implementation and evaluation of the training program that is designed in this project, which is currently continuing the implementation and evaluation processes. Because of project deadline’s being July 1, 2017, the results will be shared in the full text.
