Mentoring Scheme

Mentoring women speakers is part of EVE’s mission to improve the representation of women in plenaries and on panels at ELT Conferences worldwide. We work alongside Teachers’ Associations to make a difference to the ELT landscape.

The programme aims to address the following skills and competences, among others:

• Choosing a topic

• Developing confidence

• Dealing with stage fright

• Delivering an effective presentation: voice, gesture, interactivity

• Designing effective slides

Mentors work individually with mentees to address specific, individual issues.

Here’s how it works:

The Teachers’ Association selects 8-10 mentees through their own selection process.

EVE matches each mentee with one of our mentors.

EVE appoints coordinators to run the 10-12 week programme. Coordinators are former mentors or mentees.

The Teachers’ Association appoints its own coordinators, who work together with EVE to organise meetings etc.

The programme comprises about 10 hours of mentoring, the mentor and mentee working in their own time over that period.

The programme focuses on a 15-minute presentation, which the mentee will give online at the end of the programme.

The aim is that the mentee leaves the programme with a presentation  that they feel confident in giving, and which they can expand to present at a local, national or international conference.

Sustainability

Sustainability is an important part of our mission. We are using a ‘shadowing’ system in which some mentors follow the coordinators of a programme through one full programme cycle. Those ‘shadowers’, experienced mentors themselves, then become coordinators on future programmes. In this way, we are developing a coordinating team that can carry the programmes forward.