Potential idea to get struggling courses involved: Financial Incentive to attend workshop where students and staff from courses identified as being weak by associate deans will come and develop mentoring proposal whilst in attendance under the guidance of AMP officials. Similar to the RoLEX incentive.
Either that of the training day is for successful applications as a day of inductions and refinement of proposals.
Training Day Schedule
Introduction
Introduction (chair person, Luke M, Paul C, Stuart B?) Why are you here and congratulations for being accepted
Breakdown schedule for the day
Why AMP is being set up – What it hopes to do (Luke M, Stuart B)
What the benefits are for those involved:
Discussion of what the benefits are for participants in the AMP scheme:
Ask Definitions (for definitions worked up by Kirk/Luke see early blog)
BIRMINGHAM FUTURE MENTORING SCHEME
BENEFITS OF BEING A MENTOR
Mentoring gives to an extraordinary opportunity to facilitate a mentee's personal professional growth by sharing knowledge you have learnt throughout the years of experience. The primary intent of your mentoring role is to challenge your mentee to thinking new in different ways, the mentee is not the only one who gains from the arrangement. As mentor, there are certainly various way in which you can benefit as well.
Personal Satisfaction – 'Giving something back': Mentors generally gain a sense of personal reward and pride from being able to assist and contribute to the mentee’s development. Feedback from existing mentors often reflects the fact that mentors feel that, having achieved success in their own careers, they are pleased to be able to 'give something back'. Mentoring gives an extraordinary opportunity to facilitate a mentee's personal professional growth by sharing the knowledge you have learnt throughout the years of experience.
Awareness: As they interact with their mentee, and explore their problems and areas of concern, it will prompt answers, views and perspectives that they may not have been aware of themselves. It can also keep them abreast of other ways of thinking and keeping up to date.
Enhanced Leadership and Interpersonal Skills: Mentors gain the opportunity to practice and develop skills that are beneficial in their own professional development and will inevitably increase and sharpen their own skills and abilities as they challenge and assist the mentees they mentor. By working with individuals from different backgrounds and with a different personality type to your own as a mentor this can push you to improve your interpersonal skills. As a mentor, you can help bridge the gap between generations but have varied work place values and styles. Your ability to manage people different from you is obviously a valuable skill, especially as the workplace continues to become more diverse in every way.
Recognition: Good mentors are well respected. Becoming known as someone who can develop others, can enhance the reputation and facilitate the mentor’s own career progression.
Expand Network of Contacts: Mentors develop many rewarding professional contacts made through and for the mentees they mentor, as well as the opportunity to interact with other mentors.
Broadening the mind: As they interact with their mentee, and explore their problems and areas of concern, it will prompt answers, views and perspectives that mentors may not have been aware of themselves. It can also keep them abreast of other ways of thinking and keeping up to date.
Improving Performance: Alongside enhancing your skills, mentoring can improve your performance. One of your key roles as a mentor is to set a good example for your mentee. Knowing that you are responsible for providing appropriate and accurate guidance to your mentee should motivate you to work harder. Mentoring can also give you a fresh perspective on your performance. Mentees can often ask questions why something is done in a certain way, why do you as the mentor think and act in the way that you do? This could help the mentor take a critical look at their approach generally.
Create a legacy: by becoming a mentor you create a legacy that has a lasting impact on your mentee. Not only do you gain the satisfaction of helping develop future talent, you can pass on your values and know-how to your mentee.
Conclusion:
Mentoring can be a truly rewarding experience. That said, becoming a mentor is a key decision and one which should not be taken lightly. The benefits to the mentor and their mentee are however well worth the effort.
Benefits for Staff
Decreased Workload
Better relationship and communications with student body their needs
Sharing and reflection on ideas and practices
Increased student engagement and success
Benefits for Mentees
Academic Assistance to develop core skills
Student Ownership
Draw from the experience of the mentor
Gain confidence and communication skills
Provides a safety net
Develops employability and life skills
Smoother transition to Higher Education assessment methods and insight to further years
Networking with people in other years
Training
How to lead group session (Identify a member of staff to lead this – someone to do with teaching)
How to behave as a mentor
· Maintain a professional attitude on issues such as opinions, marks and complaints
· Offer regular sessions to mentees
· Maintain contact with AMP staff and academic staff
· Complete attendance sheets, self-reflection forms and gather student evaluation information on a weekly basis to upload to the blog
· Demonstrate good learning strategies, facilitate discussion rather than re-teach material
· How to handle sensitive subjects and where to direct students for personal issues or alternative help
List of Contacts
List of useful contacts blah…
Who | How | Why |
Sharon Farrow, Kate Onions Inspiring Futures Project Co-Ordinators | If you have any queries, or problems as on the Inspiring Futures scheme. Or if you would like to provide any feedback, or register a complaint, we are always interested to hear your comments and suggestions. | |
Birmingham City University Student Services | Student Services is there to help students make the most of their time at university. We provide high quality services that support and enhance the learning experience and are responsive to students’ changing needs. | |
Careers and Job Prospects | While some have their career mapped out, for many looking for work can be a daunting prospect – and that’s where the Careers and Job Prospects can help. | |
Finance and Money Matters | Is your mentee short of cash? Has their student loan been delayed? Are they receiving all the funding they’re entitled to? Do they need money management advice? Go to Finance and money matters. | |
Health and Wellbeing | Our professional and confidential Health and Wellbeing Services can support your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, helping you to study more effectively. They include: Disability Support, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Counselling, Healthcare, and Chaplaincy. Go to Health and wellbeing. | |
Visas and immigration | Moving to a new country to take up a place at university can be a daunting prospect, which is why we provide you with a full range of support throughout your time at Birmingham City University. Our dedicated team of International Student Advisors will be able to help you with all aspects of settling in to life in the UK and any problems you may experience.Go to Visas and immigration. | |
Child Care | Birmingham City University has a nursery at City North Campus, which offers affordable child care to students. You can contact the Child Care Advisor if you have any queries regarding child care. | |
Student’s Union | http://www.bcusu.com/ | The Students’ Union exists to act on members’ voices and cultivate vibrant and united communities for better student life. |
Library and Learning Resources | The Library and Learning resources department is there to help you succeed at University. Whether you need to borrow books, get support with your essay writing and study skills, or just need a quiet, relaxed environment to work, they can help you. | |
Birmingham Future | Established in 1993, Birmingham Future is the leading membership organisation for the city’s future leaders working in business and professional services. | |
University policies and procedures | If you want further information on Birmingham City University’s policies and procedures covering issues such as data protection, confidentiality, and how to make a complaint |
Support and Informal Development
The support CELT will provide, introduction to the project teams. Group split the group into small more intimate groups to discuss their projects.
· Introducing themselves and saying what their projects are – anyone with similar projects encouraged to get together and start talking about each others projects informally, how they can work with the mentees and deliver the help etc.
· In the groups help each other develop an elevator pitch for their projects
· We can be roaming round with Flip Cameras to record elevator pitch for every project. This confirms what they plan to do and can be put on the blog to refer back to.
Link into
Assessment – Introduction into how we will assess
Say that we will expect projects to record progress throughout their project and upload videos/blogs etc.
Say that this is to
· Encourage communication between projects
· Share ideas, tips, difficulties, ask queries etc.
· Take pride in their projects
· Create a portfolio of work to show employers
· Evaluate the ongoing success of their projects
Introduce the idea that without this involvement they won’t be able to access the next stage of their funding(?)
Introduce Mentor of the Week idea
We will be coming round to a random one of you each week to make a little video diary of how you are getting on, any difficulties you are having or any tips for the other mentors. We want you to showcase your projects, be proud of them and share any of your discoveries to help the other mentoring projects.
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