Written by one of our mentors, Hapon: On days when 2500 words seems a million miles away When the 3pm deadline leaves you lost in dismay When the subject and details are impossible to apply A peer mentor a helper in which you can rely A new place, a new year and nothing to go […]
Insight into one of our mentor’s mentoring experience – including some useful tips for aspiring mentors: https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/bUYX4Z966xl/?mode=movie
When supporting mentees with their writing, these writing/grammar resources might be useful: University of Hull > https://canvas.hull.ac.uk/courses/213 University of Adelaide > https://www.adelaide.edu.au/english-for-uni/ Purdue Online Writing Lab > https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/5/ Clarity English > http://www.clarityenglish.com/program/tensebuster.php UCL AWE > http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/apps/awe/ Hull AWE > http://hull-awe.org.uk/index.php/Grammar_course Using English for Academic Purposes > http://www.uefap.net/ University of Bristol > http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_41.htm Grammarly >https://www.grammarly.com/ Guide to Grammar and Writing >http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ University of Queensland >https://www.edx.org/course/english-grammar-style-uqx-write101x-3?utm_medium=email&utm_source=sailthru&source=sailthru&medium=email&campaign=studentnewsletter_actives_20170124&utm_campaign=StudentNewsletter_Actives_20170124&utm_term=OGActives […]
REACT Student Engagement has shared a short video exploring what benefits students at the University of Exeter gain from contributing to peer support: Find more information about peer support on this University of Exeter website.
Lovely feedback received by one of this year’s mentors: I have found Peer mentoring in Practice to be THE the most essential module of this year so far. It’s physical format is – by design – the perfect accompaniment to the first years ‘Becoming Educational’ and not only does it lead on nicely in terms […]
The BBC News article ‘University opens without any teachers‘ describes plans of an university to open without any teachers: ‘The US college, a branch of an institution in France with the same name, will train about a thousand students a year in coding and software development…‘ How it will work? Students will mentor each other […]
This week was our last peer mentoring session for this academic year. We’ve looked back – and celebrated all the things we have achieved. Second years, our peer mentors, said: ‘This module was for me the most interesting and enjoyable. It is unfortunate that the module is coming to an end.‘ ‘It’s subject everyone must […]
Introducing… [tatata] …the 2016 Peer Mentoring in Practice class: And that’s a video from an actual mentoring session (second year peer mentors with first year peer mentees): [I love my students]
Please consider… Signing up for a free open online course (SHOOC) by Sheffield Hallam University to enhance your Mentoring Skills, starting 16th January 2017. The course covers: Week 1 Introduction and induction Week 2 Modelling & Developing Professional Relationships Week 3 Developing Trainees’ Professionalism Week 4 Supporting & Guiding Trainees Week 5 Mentors, Trainees and Professional Development […]
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