Enabling Growth

Challenge

Vision

Support

Mentor's Key Tasks

Monitoring the Mentoring Process and Evaluating Progress

Mentoring Strategies

Managing Your Mentoring Time

Enabling the Process

ENABLING GROWTH

Managing the Process

Maintaining Momentum

Encouraging Movement

• This exercise helped me reflect on my own experiences as a mentee.
• Made connections to when my mentee will potentially need more support.
• Helped me identify what I can do or say to support my mentee as a learner.

Facilitating Learning Through Support: Self-Reflection

Exercise 6.1 (pg. 172)

• Circle exercise helped me realize we spent most of our time planning lessons.
• We need to spend less time on the small details and more on helping my mentee reach her goals.
• We decided it was necessary to create mentorship meeting goals for each meeting.

Reflection: How You Use Your Mentoring Time

Exercise 6.4 (pg. 189)

• Establishing a process to address conflict.
• Striving to be inclusive, open, and culturally sensitive.
• Staying focused on meeting your mentee's learning needs.

Important Pieces for My Mentoring Toolkit

Codes of Ethical Practice (pg. 180)

• Challenge the mentee to keep moving forward:
• Setting tasks
• Engaging in Discussion
• Setting up dichotomies
• Establishing high standards
• This exercise helped my mentee identify key learning opportunties.

Identifying Learning Opportunities

Exercise 6.2 (pg. 173)

• Ask Questions
• Reformulate Statements
• Summarize
• Listen for the Silence
• Listen Reflectively
• Assessing Learning Outcomes

Keeping the learner front and center

Facilitating Learning