Educational supervision / mentoring / coaching Flashcards
What might the focus of mentoring be?
- Facilitate problem solving
- Clarify and achieve goals
- Improve personal effectiveness
- Learning from work experiences
- Having career conversations
- Providing support in challenging situations
What are the rolls and responsibilities of a mentor?
- Build a +ve relationship
- Be supportive
- Encourage professional development
- Encourage deep learning from experiences
- Facilitate problem solving
- Demonstrate good practice / set example
- Help the other expand their network.
What are the roles and responsibilities of a mentee?
- Clarify development goals and priorities
- Ask you mentor for support in relevant areas
- Sugget and agenda or focus for mentoring meetings
4, Reflect on learning from experiences - Take action and do what you say you will.
What are the 4 stages of the mentoring relationship?
- Getting to know each other
- Goal setting
- Progress and maturation
- End
What are the key points to the getting to know each other phase of the mentoring relationship?
- Establish expectations
- How will mentoring be useful to mentee?
- Discuss practicalities
- Discuss confidentiality
- Create a contract
What are the key points of the goal setting phase of mentorship?
- Identify areas of knowledge or skill that mentee would like to develop
- Clarify how they relate to mentees current or future job
- Highlight aspects of personal effectiveness the mentee would like to develop
- Discuss career aspirations and short-term gosls to support this.
What are the key points of the progress and maturation phase of a mentoring relationship?
- GROW model can be useful
- Discuss what success looks like
- At next meeting review actions taken, what was learnt and start cycle again.
Discuss the key point of the end of a mentoring relationship
- Should have a definite time frame from the start
- Review and celebrate what’s been achieved
- Could continue for another predefined period
What should you agree in a mentoring agreement / contract?
- Expectations
- Goals
- Benefits
- Commitment to confidentiality
- Frequency
- Where are you meeting
- How to contact each other
What are the benefits of reflection?
- Helps mentee to review their developmental experiences in order to learn from them and create methods of further progress
- Helps mentee analyse their experiences
- Important to reflect on the good and bad experiences. Can boost confidence.
What are the steps of the Gibbs model?
- Description
- Analysis of feelings
- Evaluation of experience
- Analysis to make sense of the experience
- Conclusions where other options are considered
- Reflection to examine what you might do differently if the same situation were to arise again.
Describe the descriptive phase of the Gibbs reflective model
Step one.
Get the facts sorted - the how/what/when/where/who/why questions
Describe the analysis of feelings stage of the Gibbs model
Step two.
How were you feeling then? How are you feeling now? What were you thinking then? What are you thinking about it now?
Describe the evaluation phase of the Gibbs reflective model
Step 3.
What specifically did you do that was helpful? What specifically did you do that was unhelpful?
Describe the analysis to make sense of the experience phase of the Gibbs model
Step 4.
Consider:
1. What other factors other than your immediate actions are at play here?
2. What had been happening before this for you and the others involved?
3. What are the background factors that contributed to the situation - for you and the others involved?
4. What other contextual factors had an influence?