sorry we have been so quiet at our end recently. We've been doing lots of work but perhaps haven't had so much to show for it until the last couple of days.
Just to let you know where we are at:
today we ran the first induction sessions for mentors: it was scary but went okay, the presentation could have been a bit smoother perhaps but that will come with practice and at the end we had a good discussion with the student mentors who had some good advice for what they would like to have seen more of etc. Sometimes you just have to throw yourself in at the deep end and you get good stuff out of it at the other end and we certainly learnt a lot from giving this induction today. I'm about to revise some of the slides but I'll attach them to you in an email later today or at the beginning of next week.
We have also produced a handbook for academic mentors to refer to which includes details on dos and don'ts, how to plan, contacts etc. Again I'll send over a pdf. version of this for you to peruse at your leisure.
We are currently setting up a blog which should go live next week which each and every mentor will be an author of, we will be asking them to put up their plans, evaluation of sessions etc. each week. I'll put the link up here now but don't expect to see anything yet, I'll re-link you the address when stuff starts happening on there. This is going to be our way of evaluating the work the students are doing and also to create a resource of experiences that demonstrate good practice and perhaps issues to try and avoid.
http://acadmentors.wordpress.com/
This is a quick diagram of the various stages that we need to do over the coming weeks
Hope you are okay, how is uni going, have you got any plans for Easter?
Luke
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