Workshop on Mentoring Skills

October 11, 2020

Mentoring is a long term relationship that meets a developmentneed, helps to develop full potential and benefits all partners – mentor,mentee and the organisation. The concept of mentoring is very essential ineducational institutions especially in higher education institutions both forteachers and students. Mentoring isrelevant to all teachers at any stage of their career. All teachers willbenefit from the knowledge and experience teacher educators can provide and,for more experienced teachers, mentoring provides opportunities to refreshtheir skills, deepen their knowledge, or extend their expertise into a new areaof work. Mentoring programmes help to develop confidence and enhance thequality of teaching by providing a framework to enable teachers to develop.There are advantages too for the mentor and the institutioninvolved. Mentoring provides professional development for the mentor. Forthe mentor, it enables them to develop skills in coaching, supporting andmanaging teacher development. For the institution it helps to raise standards. Mentoringworks best when it is carried out as part of a structured developmentalprogramme. Keeping the aboveideas in view, the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of the college hasarranged a workshop on “Mentoring Skills” on 11th Oct, 2019. DrKavyashree K B, HoD and Asst Professor, Dept of Clinical Psychology, St AgnesCollege (Autonomous) was the resource person. She has explained about variousstages of mentoring and various skills needed to build rapport (SOLAR) amongmentor and mentee. She further explained about dos and don’ts of professionalmentoring. The workshop was an interactive session. The group discussion andcase analysis was also conducted. At the end she gave the format to developrecords for mentoring practices. The workshop was attendedby all the faculty members.