Throughout the past 8 weeks, it surely has taught me a lot and I have improved on how to expect the unexpected. Also how to be able to talk to my future mentee's and what they will expect from me in return. I do feel more comfortable going in to the next year and excited to meet even more new people and be able to help them out. I feel comfortable because of all the exercises we did throughout the 8 week course. It showed me what I would need to work on and how to really see the others persons point of view.
Some things I would like to see happen in the Fall training is learning how to fill out the papers when meeting with our mentee's and learn what exactly is suppose to be on the paper. Learning how to make a conversation with my mentee's may be challenging or simple depending on the person and how comfortable one individual is willing to share. Another thing is maybe when doing the one on one how to get one individual to open up and allowing me as their mentor to help guide them in the right direction.
Great blog Alisha! making conversation and filling out papers is definitely something that should be brought up in fall training. I didn't think about the conversation portion so great suggestion.
ReplyDeleteI agree completely Alisha. I am excited to be able to help out my future mentees and all the activities that we did in class helped a lot to make me feel more prepared for next year. I think that we should definitely talk more about getting a student who doesn't want to open up to do that because I am still not too comfortable with figuring that out.
ReplyDeleteHi Alisha,
ReplyDeleteI think it's great that you want to help out your mentees, as that is what we are here to do! I think that you are going to really enjoy this job.