"Mentoring Center" as a digital resource for accompanying a young teacher

The relevance of supporting the professional development and consolidation of young teachers in the profession requires the development and implementation of modern variable mentoring models using the resources of the digital educational environment. The analysis of the state educational policy in the Russian Federation, the survey of the pedagogical community, the review of foreign and domestic research and the generalization of practical experience indicate the formation of prerequisites in the education system for the creation of comprehensive software products combining electronic resources, information and technological solutions for the organization of digital mentoring. The digital resource “Mentoring Center”, created on the ERA-SKOP electronic platform to manage and monitor the process of scientific and methodological support for the implementation of variable mentoring models for young teachers, includes a set of digital services: a digital passport for users; a service for researching the needs and deficits of mentors; a recommendation service; a navigator for support programs; a service for the formation and implementation of individual educational routes mentees; a service for scheduling training and mentoring events with an alert and navigation system; individual and group logs of mentors and mentees; service for individual user statistics. The content of the resource ensures the implementation of all the functions of a young teacher’s entry into the teaching profession at all stages of his professional development (motivation, adaptation, acquisition of professional experience, formation of individual educational route and individual pedagogical style, etc.). The resource “Mentoring Center” presented in the article can be used to study and improve the process of accompanying young teachers in educational organizations of various types and regional education systems of the Russian Federation.