I would like to welcome you all to academic mentoring blog! I hope it becomes a space that you visit often throughout semester for helpful tips and resources for your sessions. In addition, if you have any suggestions for new postings, please feel free to suggest these to me. I also encourage your comments to postings, and any feedback!
Just to recap a series of orientations we had with our returners, I wanted to list here a number of takeaways that I hope you continue to foster throughout the semester:
1. Make sessions fun, visual, and interactive. Take time to go through
the strategy cards and prepare a few activities for your sessions!
2. Take the time to get to know your student. Plan to make your first session to be at least 30 minutes. Prepare some open-ended and probing questions for your first session (please see the next posting for the list you came up with at orientations).
3. Use curious questions to guide your students in their own learning!
4. Use a goal-setting activity during your first session: have your students write a letter reflecting on their values, and connecting them to long-term and short-term goals. Revisit throughout semester.
5. Continue reflecting on academic mentor role, and the ways you can grow and develop into this role.
6. And lastly, use affirmative, positive language, within the "growth mindset" framework, to help students build their confidence to overcome the fear of "choking under pressure"!
Good luck with your very first sessions, and I can't wait to hear what you all have to bring to a new semester with CAE academic mentoring!
Just to recap a series of orientations we had with our returners, I wanted to list here a number of takeaways that I hope you continue to foster throughout the semester:
2. Take the time to get to know your student. Plan to make your first session to be at least 30 minutes. Prepare some open-ended and probing questions for your first session (please see the next posting for the list you came up with at orientations).
3. Use curious questions to guide your students in their own learning!
4. Use a goal-setting activity during your first session: have your students write a letter reflecting on their values, and connecting them to long-term and short-term goals. Revisit throughout semester.
5. Continue reflecting on academic mentor role, and the ways you can grow and develop into this role.
6. And lastly, use affirmative, positive language, within the "growth mindset" framework, to help students build their confidence to overcome the fear of "choking under pressure"!
Good luck with your very first sessions, and I can't wait to hear what you all have to bring to a new semester with CAE academic mentoring!
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