SLD 121C Peer to Peer Mentoring

Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 3
Credits: 2

Builds on and expands mentoring and community leadership skills. Complements and enhances SLD 121B and SLD 121D. Prepares students to take on more responsibility in coordinating college access-focused programming to complete with their mentees. Represents a course in the three-part Leadership Through Mentoring series.

Prerequisite: Must pass a criminal background check to work with middle or high school students.
Student Learning Outcomes:

Develop personal leadership and success skills and model them for others.
Recognize the various barriers to college access that students face and develop skills to enable mentees to break those barriers.
Practice critical thinking about issues of equity and empower and provide support to mentees who face these issues.
Explain knowledge regarding college search, admissions process, and financial aid in a way that is accessible to mentees.
Understand the history of race relations locally and in Oregon as they relate to various educational settings.
Describe impact of participation in mentoring and service on local communities and individual mentees.
Plan and execute a college access-related service event that addresses a community need and educates mentees about the path to college.
Articulate how mentorship, leadership, and event planning skills are transferable and applicable to mentor’s personal goals.
Practice resilience, interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills in a variety of settings.

Content Outline

From Mentor to College Access Coach
- Review characteristics of an effective mentor
  - Personal leadership, interpersonal skills, role modeling, Growth Mindset
- Academic Success and college access
  - Understanding barriers to success for first generation college students
  - Learning styles, time management, and self-care
  - Goal setting, problem solving, critical thinking, and values exploration
- Paths to college
  - College access for mentees
  - College types and options
Diversity/Inclusion/Social Justice
- Racial equity on college campuses and at schools
- Identity and Privilege
  - Microaggressions, intersectionality, whiteness and educational institutions
- Responsibility of mentors and community leaders regarding equity
- Stereotypes and Communicating Respectfully in Diverse Environments
  - Courageous Conversations: Effective Cultural Communication
Community Leadership Development
- Everyday leadership vs. positional leadership
- Our local community
- Leadership Styles and Conflict Resolution
- Event planning
  - College access field trip
  - Service days