Mentoring Matters
Welcome to "Mentoring Matters" the podcast where professors Stephanie Hansen and Mary Drewnoski share their expert insights on how to excel as a mentor. Join us as we tackle the challenges of mentoring graduate students and offer actionable tips for building community, enhancing communication, and fostering a culture of learning within your team. With years of experience and hard-won wisdom, Hansen and Drewnoski will provide the guidance you need to succeed in your mentoring endeavors. Tune in to "Mentoring Matters" for valuable insights and advice on mentoring graduate students.
Mentoring Matters
Mirror, Mirror: The Importance of Reflection for Student Growth
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In this episode we discuss how reflection helps our graduate students learn and grow. We talk about some of the strategies we are already using to cause students to pause and reflect and ways we want to try in the future.
What- Recapping the experience
So what- Why does it matter?
Now what- What's next? What do we do differently next time?
We also decided this was just one more example of using powerful questions in our graduate student mentoring. Prior episodes that might be useful here: Quit bossing, start coaching and Phrases to use in your grad mentoring
For actionable tips and strategies for mentoring please check out The Graduate Mentor's Trail Map available in paperback and ebook!
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