|
Sep 07, 2024
|
|
|
|
Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
|
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
|
|