What is mentoring?

The module aims to:
enable you to plan and deliver subject-specific and peer mentoring through using effective observation, feedback and support
enable you to analyse the way that your own attitudes, values, beliefs and life experiences influence your approach to mentoring
enable you to begin, sustain and end a mentoring relationship in the contexts of professional tutoring, subject-specific mentoring and mentoring new staff in the higher education and lifelong learning sectors
enable you to engage mentees in a two-way mentoring partnership
Watch our video to find out what is at the heart of Mentoring in Education, Training and Professional Development. Course leader Dr Rebecca Eliahoo explains what practitioners get from this practical work-based Master's-level module:
Sessions
Session 1 – the role and characteristics of mentors in the LLS: introduction to the course, participants' roles and work contexts, the role and characteristics of mentors, mentors' concerns, how to write reviews
Session 2 – peer observation and feedback: the nature and methodology of observing in the classroom, providing support and challenge in verbal and written feedback
Session 3 – the influence of values, attitudes and life experiences: reflections on the ways that mentors' values, attitudes and life experiences affect mentoring practice
Session 4 – theories and ethics in mentoring: recognising critical incidents in mentoring and examining ethical and theoretical frameworks
Session 5 – managing the mentoring relationship: the skills needed to manage the mentoring relationship including questioning, reflecting back, challenging and reframing
Session 6 – mentoring yourself, the reflective mentor: the nature of professional knowledge and reflective practice, the challenges and rewards of mentoring
Session 7 – creating a mentoring 'architecture' in your organisation: the range of institutional strategies needed to support and enhance the effective mentoring of trainee lecturers in the lifelong learning sector and lecturers in HE
Session 8 – ending the mentoring relationship: the need for a closing ritual that acknowledges the transition to a more informal connection between mentor and mentee
Session 9 – mentoring workshop: devising mentor self-evaluation strategies and evaluating the module