Mentoring ist mehr als eine Nebentätigkeit.

The article focuses on the significance of professionalizing mentoring for new teachers, highlighting its importance due to teacher shortages and varying mentor training across German states. It explores three key areas such as need for mentor qualification, differences between mentoring in schools and businesses, and challenges in fostering reciprocal mentor-mentee relationships, illustrating them through mentoring scenarios and the complexities of mentor roles in teacher training programs.