2.3 Early Childhood Agency Mentor
Agency Mentor Role: An individual who shares and uses their knowledge, skills, and experiences to support and guide a mentee to improve their practice and acquire new skills (College of Early Childhood Educators, 2018).
- Guide, support, and empower ECE Students
- Build a relationship with ECE student
- Create a welcoming environment for the ECE Student to learn
- Lead by example
- Work collaboratively
- Take responsibility for their professional practice
- Engage and interact in ECE Student’s learning
- Review ECE Student’s field placement requirements – workbook
- Communicate expectations with ECE Students
- Provide thoughtful, reflective, and constructive feedback
- Learn from each other(Agency Mentor and ECE Student)
- Build a learning partnership with ECE Student and College Faculty Advisor
- Ensuring a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative partnership with ECE Student and Faculty Advisor
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