Effectiveness of One to One Mentoring and Monitoring by Diet faculty on Academic Performance of Government Schools

Abstract

In the modern competitive life style everyone has to update themselves time to time. It is challenging to spare time separately for updating in-service personnel. Mentoring and monitoring of in- service personnel are the important wyas to update them without spending separate time. Mentoring is the process to provide support at their work place without disturbing them and its effectiveness should also be monitored. This study was planned with the aim to assess the effectiveness of mentoring and to provide the special support to the needful persons. Tools: Students’ academic performance was assessed by using the NIPUN Lakshya App and a self-developed semi-structured pro-forma for identifying School's NIPUN Status and Challenges in Making NIPUN School reported by Head Teacher were used for 78 poor performing schools data collection in this action research in three phases. Data was analyzedby using SPSS 21.0. Result: of the study depicted that the class wise percentage of the NIPUN student score increased significantly in four months as Class 1- 23.15%, to 82.38%, Class 2—27.3%to 81.7% and Class 3- 35.77% to 84.75%. The findings suggested that regular quality based one to one mentoring and monitoring is playing important role in enhancing teacher's teaching performance and improving students' academic achievements. Involvement of higher authorities like deputy director/principal DIET, BSA, BEOs DIET faculties is also very much needed in monitoring the quality of teaching learning processes and outcomes. Future Recommendations: The mentors (ARPs and SRGs) selection process should be refined to ensure that only the most dedicated and committed, experienced, knowledgeable, trained and passionate individuals are chosen for the Mentoring. The Academic Development Unit (DIET) should also create a feedback form for both mentors and mentees to complete at the end of each term. This will enable the mentors to enhance the quality of mentoring.Additionally, the mentors who are providing good mentorship should be kept intact (by not sending them to their previous level of designation) by any way. They should also be appreciated and promoted time to time. Keywords; Mentoring, Monitoring, Feedbacks, NIPUN Bharat Mission, Lakshya.