Undergraduate - UnitEDF3810 - Mentoring at work

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Education
Offered	Clayton First semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Mr Wing Chan

Synopsis

In this unit students consider why mentoring has been taken up so widely, and for what purposes. The unit considers the different forms mentoring takes in different places, with a focus on mentoring in workplaces. The unit provides students with the skills and knowledge to enable them to design a mentoring initiative. It also offers students an opportunity to critically evaluate the claims of mentoring and to consider its merits in relation to other approaches to promoting learning in the workplace.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

show an appreciation of different types of mentoring
understand the steps involved in setting up a small workplace mentoring scheme
have an awareness of issues involved in introducing mentoring
demonstrate basic skills in designing, coordinating and evaluating a mentoring program.

Assessment

Annotated bibliography (1500 words, 40%)
Mentoring action plan (2500 words, 60%)

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 144 hours per semester comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

18 contact hours per semester
6 hours of online activity per semester

(b.) Additional requirements

independent study to make up the minimum required hours per week

Chief examiner(s)

Mr Wing Chan

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Adult learning