| Block 1, 2023 Online | |
| Units : | 0.25 |
| School or Department : | School of Education |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
Requisites
Enrolment is not permitted if EDU8400 has been previously completed
Overview
Mentorship joins experienced, respected and knowledgeable professionals with more inexperienced, and often newer ones in formal or informal beneficial relationships. The scope can include strategic, operational and cultural concerns as well as professional knowledge and skills.
This minicourse will introduce students to the mentoring skills needed to support others in building capacity and confidence. Students will learn how to plan, implement and evaluate mentoring conversations within their professional context. Students will also gain an understanding of the benefits, limitations, barriers and risks for successful mentoring conversations.
Please be advised that this minicourse is made up of four parts please see EDU8400 for the full course specification.
Course learning outcomes
On successful completion of this course students should be able to:
- make contextually appropriate plans and decisions to effectively implement mentoring conversations (EDU8400 LO1);
- apply mentoring knowledge and skills to plan, implement and evaluate micro conversations at least once with someone in your workplace or other professional context (EDU8400 LO3).
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | You as a mentor | 20.00 |
| 2. | What mentoring is | 20.00 |
| 3. | Benefits, limitations, barriers and risks | 20.00 |
| 4. | Foundation, quality and skills | 20.00 |
| 5. | What mentoring looks like | 20.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
Assessment details
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) | Course learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Report | No | 100 | 1,2 |