Providing Mutual Benefits
The faculty mentoring is set up as a reciprocal relationship in which the faculty mentee learns about integrating technology into their courses and the student mentor learns more pedagogical expertise in certain content areas. Because the mentoring process is dynamic, the roles of student mentors gradually change and evolve.
Therefore, the benefits for education students as mentors include the opportunity to establish connections with faculty members, to learn about pedagogy expertise from them, and to better understand how faculty members can successfully integrate technology to their courses. The faculty mentees are able to visualize and conceptualize how technology could be used in the classroom through the brainstorming process with help from mentor's technology experiences.
Mutual Benefits
| ...As an international
graduate student mentor, I overcame the anxiety of not being able
to be a "know-it-all" technology mentor, did authentic educational
work with two faculty members and gained insightful pedagogical expertise
in an environment that emphasizes collaboration, communication, and
team work. Two faculty members (the mentees) increased their familiarity
with technology and their integration of these technologies in their
classrooms with individual technological assistance. |
From Hsueh-Hua Chuang's Case Story Fall 2000
