The National Mission for Mentoring (NMM), as envisioned in NEP 2020, aims to build a sizable pool of excellent professionals eager to mentor them in order to assure school teachers’ ongoing professional growth. Regardless of the age or status of the mentor and mentee, these potential mentors will help our country achieve its 21st-century development goals. On July 29, 2022, the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) started NMM in Pilot mode in 30 Central Schools across the nation (15 KVs, 10 JNVs, and 5 CBSE).
On May 31 and June 1, 2023, NCTE held a two-day capacity-building workshop for the 60 mentors in order to give instructors with high-quality professional support as well as the fundamental mentoring skills and methodologies. As the two-day workshop’s chief guest, Prof. Yogesh Singh, Chairperson of the NCTE, addressed the dignitaries and mentors in attendance. In the presence of Ms. Kesang Y. Sherpa, Member Secretary, NCTE, he also officially unveiled the NMM Web Portal, which will be used to conduct mentoring sessions using synchronous and asynchronous techniques. This site will act as a conduit for carrying out successful mentorship sessions for teachers that are supported by mutual trust, chance discovery, and helpful criticism.
The NCTE has hired 60 outstanding professionals from a variety of fields to serve as mentors for NMM in a variety of areas, including classroom management, building 21st century skills, interpersonal skills/community engagement, action research, holistic assessment, art integrated pedagogy, and managing teachers’ mental health, among others.
