Subject Learning Objectives (SLOs)
Subject Learning Goals
Linking Statement
Mentoring is a commonly organised activity during my day to day profession. Constructed through the lens of teachers, students, peer to peer and from a complex organisational perspective.
On a weekly basis we attend department meetings, leadership meetings, professional development activities and one on one observational tasks, which from my perspective involve mentoring. Daily we apply mentoring activities to our teaching and learning space, especially inside the flexible learning setting.
These mentoring activities contributing to my preconceived idea of what mentoring means, warrants and and eventuates too.
Mentoring in my initial understanding is a psychosocial relationship with a mentee who could be a friend, college, peer or professional) whose end goal is to better advise or progress in a particular direction or set goals.
Mentorship is the term used to describe this activity.
Dominguez and Kochan (2020) describe common elements of mentoring like; who is involved in the mentorship, what is the function or purpose of the mentorship, and what activities are the parties undertaking during the mentorship.
a. Analyse professional contexts with a focus on how particular issues and challenges, shape mentoring programs
b. Identify key issues in designing and implementing workplace mentoring programs
c. Design workplace mentoring programs
d. Reflect on their practice as a workplace mentor
e. Communicate using genres and technologies appropriate to the purpose
Goal 1:
Critically analyse mentoring in the workplace and better understand how the theoretical and practical approaches can influence decisions and directions made which can shape a mentoring program.
Goal 2:
Identify key elements when designing and implementing a workplace mentoring program. Using evidence informed decisions like scientific theories and approaches learnt from the weekly modules.
Goal 3:
Design and implement an mentoring program within our peer learning group. Use this mentoring program as guidance to designing and implementing a workplace mentoring program.
Goal 4:
Critically reflect on the experience of being mentored and mentoring during the unit.