MENTORING: EXPERIENCE IN SECONDARY PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
Introduction. The article reveals the main problems of organizing mentoring in a secondary vocational educational institution, suggests ways to solve these shortcomings on the example of the Novosibirsk College of Food Industry and Processing. The situation of staffing of regional enterprises is highlighted; mentoring is analyzed as the activity of educational institutions and enterprises in solving problematic issues related to providing enterprises with in-demand specialists. The promising areas of activity and efforts of employers and educational institutions in terms of introducing the institution of mentoring are determined and evaluated. Analyzes the potential for improving the efficiency of the educational process as a priority task of modern society. Methodology. The research is carried out based on practical methodology, focuses on solving practical problems and purposefully solving the issues of organizing mentoring in professional educational institutions of the region, in order to ensure the effective work of graduates of secondary vocational education. The article discusses the issue of organizing the work of the college as a resource center, as a modern innovative structure aimed at creating an effective mechanism for networking with social partners in mentoring. Results are consist in the dissemination of the experience of organizing mentoring in an educational institution, within the Siberian region, contributing to the creation of a situation of success among young specialists, allowing to ensure the motivation of young people, carried out through moral and material incentives. Conclusion. The authors note the importance of introducing and developing the institution of mentoring as an effective resource that has an impact on social development. The study explains how mentors work with young people. It is the community of such people that will be able to realize the prospect of the country’s development in socioeconomic, cultural, and spiritual and moral transformation. The authors focus on the criteria that determine the promising areas of activity and efforts of employers and educational institutions in the aspect of mentoring development. The work is an analysis of the potential for improving the quality of training students of secondary vocational education, as a priority task of modern society.