Enabling Growth

ENABLING GROWTH

Support

Challenge

Vision

Managing the Process

Maintaining Momentum

Encouraging Movement

Managing Your Mentoring Time

Mentoring Strategies

Enabling the Process

Mentor's Key Tasks

Monitoring the Mentoring Process and Evaluating Progress

Exercise 6.1 (pg. 172)

Facilitating Learning Through Support: Self-Reflection

• 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.

Exercise 6.4 (pg. 189)

Reflection: How You Use Your Mentoring Time

• 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.

Codes of Ethical Practice (pg. 180)

Important Pieces for My Mentoring Toolkit

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

Exercise 6.2 (pg. 173)

Identifying Learning Opportunities

• 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.

Facilitating Learning

Keeping the learner front and center

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