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Mentoring is a one-to-one relationship

between an expert and a novice in which the expert guides the novice by behavioural and cognitive modelling, academic and career counselling, emotional and scholarly support, advice, professional networking, and assessment.

Coaching is observing learners' performance and providing encouragement, diagnosis, directions, feedback, motivational prompts, monitoring and regulating learner performance, provoking reflection, and perturbing learners' models.

Facilitating is providing technical, pedagogical, managerial, and social activities that maintain sustained and authentic communication between and among instructors and students.

Technical:

Management Function:

e-teacher who plays the role of mentor, coach (Volman, 2005) and facilitator, (that is the so called 'e-moderator'

Social Function:

In order to perform these teaching functions, teacher training should focus on how to develop a series of abilities and strategies

Professional:

Intellectual Function:

Personal:

advantage of e-training is that it permits the achievement of really autonomous learning, for its convenience in time and space.

The primary function is that of orientator,

motivator and guide of the students.

Kids who feel confident, engaged, and motivated to learn do not act out.

Stimulating video content can add to excitement and understanding. Hands-on experimentation helps a lot when appropriate, as does competition between teams or against the clock.

Classroom management strategies matter, of course, but pizzazz matters more. Motivated, engaged, challenged, and successful students are well-behaved, not because they've been threatened but because they are too busy engaged in learning to misbehave.