Mentoring & Coaching: Effective to Advance Development

Abstract

With the fast social development in terms of economy and technology, teachers' academic performance and teaching skills have gained more attention to boost the progress of schools and even societies. According to a comparison and summary of articles from various scholars, and also interviews with some teachers from Chinese secondary schools, this article mainly discusses mentoring and coaching, which can be regarded as two vital factors for teachers' improvement. Based on the discussion towards different models of mentoring and coaching, this research can evidently find that both mentoring and coaching are significant for educators and educational organizations as they can help to achieve goals and advance development. However, some difficulties still need to be acknowledged and tackled in the future, which is demonstrated in this article.