About the
Institute:

Mentoring Institute

 

July 6 - 8, 2009

Institute Objectives

By participating in this event you will:

  • See education as a key set of processes and understand how these processes of learning (using different learning theories), teaching (facilitation of learning), mentoring (facilitation of growth), curriculum design, and assessment all integrate to produce faculty, staff, and student growth and development.

  • Adapt at least five new learning tools or techniques into current faculty and staff practices, based upon current research on learning and growth related to mentoring.

  • Learn the difference between assessment and evaluation and how to improve assessment systems to improve the effectiveness of mentoring.

  • Gain assessment skills and learn how to incorporate self-assessment techniques to help mentees develop meta-cognitive skills.

  • Learn the difference between managing and mentoring; and increase your desire to do more mentoring of peers, which includes motivating them based upon their learning plan and special learning needs and styles.

Overview/Purpose

The Mentoring workshop is an interactive learning environment where educators experience the role of mentee and mentor in an active learning environment that models a growth culture using structured self-reflection (self-assessment). Participants gain many tools and techniques for improving a mentee’s learning skills, applying a mentoring process, designing specific experiences for increasing mentee success, and strengthening abilities to improve assessment processes in one’s self and in a mentee. Faculty, advisors, and administrators explore personal educational philosophies, analyze their own approaches to help others grow, and share their ideas with peers to obtain feedback. Participants gain personal growth in learning skills that help them to improve institutional learning-outcomes through mentoring. Participants leave with an increased willingness to take on new challenges in mentoring.

Institute Agenda & Activities

Coming soon!