What is a Mentor? This may seem like a simple question that you know the answer to, at least I thought I did until I begun to read Peer Mentor Companion. I have had many mentors through my life confirmation mentor, high school mentor, Hixson peer mentor, learning community peer mentor, and many more that you may never think as a mentor. As the mentee of these many mentors, I thought them to be someone just lending a helping hand but as I read through Peer Mentor Companion I realized that they are more of life changers who are guiding you through a certain part of your life. Among realizing this, I realized that I am not as prepared to be a good mentor as I once thought I had been. This being said I become more eager to go to class and learn my strengths and weaknesses so I know what I can work on to become that outstanding mentor I thrive to be.
While sitting in class this past Tuesday, going over the syllabus for the class and finding out what events are to come. I know that I have been given the tools to form myself into that outstanding mentor and it is now up to me to construction myself into a lean mean mentoring machine. With the aid of the Mentoring Confidence Inventory, I know some of the major things that I need to become more confident on before starting my mentoring. As I work on these things I know that I will have to support of my fellow mentors that I look forward to getting to know and working with, in the digital storytelling project.
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Yes! The digital storytelling project should help give you a great insight into what the first-year students will do, and it will help you build a community with your fellow peer mentors.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have many mentors that have helped you through life which must have given you some insight on how you can be like them and become that mentoring machine.
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