Career Development Mentoring (25 links)

A Guide to Training and Mentoring in the Intramural Research Program at NIH. National Institutes of Health. Covers the roles of supervisors, mentors, and trainees and training in scientific investigation, research communications, scientific responsibility and personal interactions. Also addresses career planning. Includes links to related Web sites.

Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Sciences and Engineering. Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy. Intended for faculty members, teachers, administrators, and others who advise and mentor students of science and engineering. Summarizes features that are common to successful mentoring relationships and encourages mentoring habits that are in the best interests of both parties to the relationship.

Bibliography on Mentoring. Deliberations on Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. A short recent bibliography of books and articles on mentoring. From Deliberations on Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (UK).

Critical Perspectives on Mentoring: Trends and Issues. Mott, V, Ellinger, A, Guy, T & Hansman, CA. Explores emerging viewpoints, issues, and trends related to mentoring and adult learning. Chapters include Mentoring: From Athena to the 21st Century; Emerging Perspectives on Mentoring; Mentoring in Contexts; Telementoring; Diversity and Power in Mentoring Relationships; and Facing Forward: Implications for Practice and Suggestions for Future Research.

Educator Peer Mentoring and Review. Baylor College of Medicine. Provides an overview of educator peer mentoring and review, including participant discussion about experiences with peer mentoring. Describes the critical pairs method and educator consultation program used at Baylor College of Medicine. Includes links to similar programs at other institutions and a bibliography.

Empowering the Faculty: Mentoring Redirected and Renewed (ERIC Digest). ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education. A summary of a full-length report in the ASHE-ERIC Higher Education series 95-3, (Volume 24-3). Discusses the dynamics of mentoring for empowering faculty members as leaders and the importance of mentoring women and minorities in academe.

Faculty Mentoring. National Library of Medicine. A dynamic search of the NLM Medline database on this topic using the NLM PubMed interface.

Faculty Mentoring - References and Additional Resources. Virginia Commonwealth University - School of Medicine. A comprehensive list of books and articles on faculty mentoring, with an emphasis on academic medicine.

Faculty Mentoring Guide. Virginia Commonwealth University - School of Medicine. A primer on mentoring for Departments, Divisions, mentors, and mentees that covers its history, suggestions for mentors and mentees, alternatives to traditional mentoring, evaluating the relationship, and getting started. Includes references and additional resources and useful assessment forms. PDF version.

Faculty Resources - Mentoring Program. University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita. Topics include: Mentoring Activities; Methods of Mentoring; How to Choose a Mentor or Mentee; Characteristics, Roles and Responsibilities of a Mentor; and Responsibilities of a Mentee.

How to Get the Mentoring You Want: A Guide for Graduate Students at a Diverse University. University of Michigan - Horace H Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Addresses the following topics: What is Mentoring?; Why is Mentoring Important?; Why is Mentoring Hard to Find?; The Importance of a Mentoring Team; Considerations for Forming a Mentoring Team; How to Initiate Contact with a Potential Mentor; How to Increase Your Chances of Finding Good Mentoring; How to Be a Good ProtTgT; What to Do if Problems Arise; and Changing Advisors. Also includes a section on Mentorship Issues Within a Diverse Community.

How to Mentor Graduate Students: A Guide for Faculty at a Diverse University. University of Michigan - Horace H Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Topics include: What Is Mentoring?; The Benefits of Mentoring; Before You Start; The Basics of Good Mentorship; At the First Meetings; Clarifying Expectations; General Advice to Give to Graduate Students; How Departments Can Encourage Mentoring. Also includes a section on Mentorship Issues Within a Diverse Community.

Issues on Mentoring. Deliberations on Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. A set of FAQs on academic mentoring. Question include: What's mentoring? Who can be mentor? What does a mentor do? Who needs mentoring? Should mentors be involved in assessment? and What training may mentors need? Prepared by Phil Race for Deliberations on Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.

Mentoring. University of Washington - Center for Instructional Development and Research. A brief tabular summary of suggestions for mentors and mentees on how to get the most out of mentoring relationships. From CIDR Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2001.

Mentoring Handbook. University of California - Irvine. Written for mentors, those who wish to serve as mentors, and those responsible for establishing mentor programs. Includes practical ideas about mentoring, directed towards the teaching profession. Topics include What is a Mentor?; How to Select Promising Mentors; Establishing Productive Mentoring Relationships; Is Training Really Necessary?; Ways of Mentoring; Avoiding the Risks of Mentoring; The Joys of Mentoring and How to Organize and Evaluate a Mentor Program.

Mentoring Handbook. Virginia Commonwealth University - Graduate Studies. Outlines the general characteristics of the the mentor-trainee relationship, describes the core values of mentoring and provides guidelines for formalizing expectations, including responsibilities of trainees and mentors.

Mentoring Handbook. University of Ottawa - Faculty of Medicine. A brief handbook that provides useful guidelines and helpful hints on mentoring. Includes basic concepts, function and use of meetings, and mentoring pitfalls.

Mentoring Handbook. Arizona State University Graduate Women's Association. Outlines the reasons for participating in a mentoring relationship in graduate school, details the nature of the process, describes how to get started, the importance of the first meeting in defining the relationship, how to manage conflict, and the usefulness of journal-keeping to help enhance the process. Includes useful readiness questions. worksheets, checklists and a set of references.

Mentoring New Online Faculty: Strategies that Work. Lieberman, J & McNett, M. Describes various methods for the mentoring process and guidelines to maximize the learning and professional development of new online instructors.

Mentoring Project. Association for Women in Science. Describes the background and history of the Association for Women in Science Mentoring Project and describes how to become or find a mentor. Includes a set of references. Focus is on increasing the number of women who pursue careers as science and engineering professional.

Mentoring Students Online. Penn State University - Education Technology Services. Defines mentoring and its purpose, describes the characteristics of mentorship, and outlines the responsibilities of the mentor. Also include some good tips and tools to facilitate and enhance the process.

New Perspectives on Mentoring (ERIC Digest). ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult Career and Vocational Education. Describes the new forms of and perspectives on mentoring in the information age and the kinds of learning that result from mentoring relationships. Includes a recent set of references.

Principles of Good Practice: Supporting Early-Career Faculty. Sorcinelli, D. Outlines 10 principles of good practice for supporting early-career faculty. Includes examples of concrete and innovative approaches to good practice being tried out now in a variety of institutional settings. From the American Association for Higher Education.

Published References about Educator Peer Mentoring and Review. Baylor College of Medicine. An annotated bibliography of books and articles on faculty development, mentoring and peer review of teaching. From the Educator Peer Mentoring and Review project.

Recommendations for a Successful Mentoring Program. US Department of Health and Human Services - Office on Women's Health. Outlines a specific set of guidelines that institutions should consider in planning and establishing a mentoring program.