Mentoring, need, teacher as mentor, mentee's expectation, agenda for the mentor, qualities of a mentor

1. Mentoring
-the Sum
Translating
into a
Mentor
Faculty
Development
Programme,
Alva’s College
of Engineering
&
Management,
January 21,
2015

2. Mentor
• Difficult to define
• Someone regarded as a guide whose opinion is
accepted without questioning by another
• Formal Mentor-Full Time Job
• Teacher cum Mentor

3. A Brief History
• Guru in Hinduism & Buddhism
• Elder in Judaism
• Apprentice in Guild
• 1970s, HR Practices absorbed the term in the USA

4. Why Teacher should be a Mentor?
• Students have an identification
of their purpose in the college
• Longer engagement of students
• Better trained under a system
• Teachers Responsibility as the
builder of a generation, builder
of a society, builder of a nation
• Remuneration has nothing to
do with being a mentor

5. Why Mentoring?
• Critical Period (General
Studies to Career Oriented
Studies)- Academic Mentoring
• Enhancing Confidence Levels
• Development of All Round
Personality
• Resolving Childhood and Teen
Aging
• Bad Parenting
• Better Value System
• Physically Fit with a Strong
Mind

6. Where to Begin?
• A Group Programme for the
Parents (suitably in the PTA)
meeting
• Calling the Parents, when
necessary
• Mentor the Parents,
wherever needed
• If many students suffer from
unsuitable study
atmosphere at home,
prepare and send some
brochures

7. Mentee’s Expectation
• Academic Orientation
• Positive Attitude in Life
• Genuine Interest in Students’ Welfare
• Inquisitive, Alert and a Quick Impulse
• Work Commitment
• Personal Integrity
• Values-Based Life
• Emotional Equanimity

8. Academic Orientation
• Becoming Highly
Knowledgeable
• Spending sufficient number
of hours on study
• Awareness about the latest
developments
• Enhancing the Curiosity of
the students
• General Reading apart from
Subject Books
• Encouraging Interaction in
the class room
• Seminars, Symposium,
Conferences, Fests
• Membership of Professional
Bodies

9. Personal Attitude
• Exuding Energy
• Positive Attitude
• Courage in dealing with students
• Punctuality and Time Sense
• Not easily moved by psychological manipulation of students
• Impartial in meting out punishment

10. Genuine Interest in
Students Welfare
• Guiding the students in
improving attendance
• Selectively monitoring the
progress of the students
• Lending them books from
personal library
• Tips to avoid stress at the time
examination
• Tips to maintain their physical
fitness and a sound mind
• Encouraging to participate in
extra-curricular activities and
helping them in maintaining
balance with studies

11. Work Commitment
• Punctuality or Early Arrival in
the Institution
• Maintenance of the
department well
• Showing keen interest in the
development of infrastructure
• Multi-Tasking
• Establishment of manageable
systems and practices
• An all pervasive work culture
• Least Absenteeism
• Late Hours Working

12. Values-Based Life
• Having principles
• Personal integrity including
financial integrity
• Not oriented towards money-
making
• Not being a miser
• Contributing to good and
social work
• Social Consciousness
• Honesty and Truthfulness

13. Emotional Equanimity
• Not affected by emotions
like ordinary people
• Ever growing maturity in
dealing with problems
• Pretending to be angry in
unacceptable situations
• Not shocked by violent
atmosphere
• Debating with a controlled
voice

14. THANK
YOU