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Increasing emphasis is being placed on the importance of mentoring in workplace, community and voluntary settings. It has become a contemporary human resource tool to help and support individuals to develop themselves and their competencies to perform more effectively in a range of contexts The purpose of mentoring is to help and support people to manage their own learning in order to maximise individual potential, skills, performance and personal development.
This module will enable students to consider, develop and apply the knowledge, skills, attributes and attitudes necessary for effective mentoring in relation to their personal and professional development and in preparation for their future employability. It will provide first hand experience of mentoring practice by providing cross-level peer support to students preparing for work experience in a range of contexts (work placement, volunteering, community settings).

i. Knowledge and Understanding
On successful completion of the module the student should be able to:
By the end of this module students should be able to:
a) critically understand the dynamics and power relations of the relationship between mentor and mentee;
b) critically understand the social and organisational context of mentoring including the concept of the learning organisation;
c) critically apply theoretical perspectives to mentoring practice;
d) critically review models of mentoring.

ii. Skills
By the end of this module students should be able to:
a) critically undertake mentoring in action — a readiness to apply practicalmentoring skills to students at the pre work experience/volunteering stage of their programme of studies;
b) demonstrate the key skills required for an effective working relationship with student peers, including interpersonal skills, communication skills, time management and goal setting;
c) apply the skills developed to Continuous Professional Development and reflective practice.

Staff / student contact: 18% (lectures, tutorials)
Student directed learning: 82%

The learning experience is focused on interactive learning consisting of workshops (storytelling to promote metacognition) and group work with a number of short, formal lectures. Learning will be supported by opportunities for reflection and formative feedback. All teaching and learning will draw on the personal knowledge and experiences of the individual in the workplace/ community/volunteering situations and will encourage critical reflection and goal setting in relation to future employability.

The Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.