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Sep 07, 2024
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Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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SLD 121B Personal Mentoring Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 3 Credits: 2
Develops necessary skills to be an effective mentor and community leader. Prepares mentors to serve as role models to encourage and influence the personal, educational, and professional development of at-risk students.
Prerequisite: Must pass a criminal background check if working with middle or high school students. Repeatable: Course may be repeated for a maximum of six credits. Student Learning Outcomes:
- Develop academic success skills and model them for others.
- Identify leadership styles and apply them in a mentoring role.
- Discuss self-development methods and create a self-development plan.
- Recognize challenges mentees face when transitioning between various levels of education.
- Facilitate problem solving and provide support to mentees during times of transition.
- Describe rationale and benefits of engagement in mentoring and service to local communities.
- Examine and demonstrate personal growth in leadership and mentorship
- Articulate how mentorship and leadership skills are transferable.
Content Outline
- Understanding Your Role
- What is “mentoring”?
- Characteristics of an effective mentor
- Understanding barriers to success for first generation college students
- Benefits of mentoring
- Academic Success Skills
- Active Listening Skills
- Interpersonal skills and role modeling
- Learning styles
- Goal Setting/Values exploration
- Time Management/Self Care
- Problem Solving
- Communication Skills
- Diversity/Social Justice
- Background stories and their relevance
- Socio-economic status and college pursuit
- Family involvement in students’ academic pursuit
- Explore personal identities and how it relates to privilege, power, and responsibility
- Leadership Development
- Leadership styles
- Conflict resolution
- Everyday leadership vs Positional leadership
- Importance of leadership in your local community
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