About being a mentor: Criteria and competency statements
MENTOR (ME) competency
Innovative faculty are MENTORS.
They recognize the value of relationships and spend energy building relationships. Faculty who are mentors reach out to peers and across boundaries to engage with others in meaningful ways. Being a mentor means, at times, being a coach, a leader, and a sharer of knowledge. Faculty who are developing competence in their role as mentors may do the following kinds of things.
A mentoring mindset is essential in contemporary teaching and learning.
Georgian peers helped identify the key criteria associated with the MENTOR role and work of faculty.
Key criteria:
|relationship focused| coach| leader| knowledge sharer|
Innovative Georgian College faculty are question-askers. They innovate by maintaining currency in both their field and their teaching practice to best position their students. They think critically about their profession and their teaching and approach research with a critical lens that they bring to their classroom and students. These faculty take action on the research they find in order to offer the best learning opportunities to students.
Exemplar performance descriptors and competency statements
Faculty who are MENTORS at an EMERGING level (ME-E) might do the following:
- Identify the importance of relationships to mentoring.
- Consider the importance of coaching to growth.
- Consider how leadership looks in teaching and learning and professional work.
- Recognize that sharing knowledge impacts teaching and learning.
Faculty who are MENTORS at a PERFORMING level (ME-P) might do the following:
- Actively engage in partnerships to enhance teaching and learning.
- Establish trust and facilitate goal setting.
- Engage in leadership opportunities.
- Practice sharing ideas.
Faculty who are MENTORS at a TRANSFORMING level (ME-T) might do the following:
- Share best practices to build relationships and break down barriers.
- Prioritize coaching to support peers.
- Model leadership for peers.
- Inspire peers by listening, collaborating and sharing wisdom.
Please note that these descriptors are not exhaustive. Faculty demonstrate this competency in numerous ways, all of which are key to innovative teaching. Please share your exemplars as you describe how you are emerging, performing, or transforming the teaching and learning ecosystem.
