Connect with experienced mentors through our mentorship programs to support your professional development. These programs pair you with seasoned educators who offer valuable insights, advice, and support as you navigate your teaching career. Our mentors can help you develop effective teaching strategies, balance your professional responsibilities, and achieve your career goals. Join our mentorship community to benefit from the wisdom and experience of those who have successfully walked the path before you.
Course Mentors is a peer-based program that is intended to be a collegial, interdisciplinary community of faculty who support one another in improving their teaching through sharing ideas, experiences, and practices.
Please submit your application by September 6, 2024.
If you have any questions about the Course Mentors program, please feel free to contact miriam.lipsky@miami.edu.
The program combines small groups that include:
Over the course of a semester, a Course Mentors group will meet to discuss their courses, identify common challenges, review educational literature, propose new activities or modes of interaction, and discuss plans to implement those changes. The faculty lead will focus on customized teaching support including sharing practices, peer consultation and feedback, and optional course observation.
Course Mentors groups typically meet 4-5 times throughout the semester and have no more than 10 participants in a group. Meeting dates are based on the overall availability of the group.
This cohort will focus on topics such as an explanation of the "Flipped learning" concept, how to introduce study concepts before the class, implementing innovative practices during class, creating assessments during and after the class, and using educational technology to enhance student learning. Boosting Active Learning through Flipped Techniques
Faculty Lead
This cohort will focus on topics such as creating a safe space for discussion, introducing controversial topics for dialogue and debate, managing student-student conflict, and supporting students in need.Facilitating Difficult Classroom Conversations
Faculty Leads
This cohort will focus on challenging assumptions behind traditional grading practices, de-centering grades in the classroom, providing detailed feedback and/or opportunities for revisions, and learning different approaches to support learning.Rethinking your Assessment Strategy through Ungrading
Faculty Lead
This cohort will focus on mini topics for exploring the concept of intrinsic motivation, such as, (a) the effects of external factors on intrinsic motivation, (b) interpersonal and intrapersonal processes affecting intrinsic motivation, and (c) satisfaction of autonomy, relatedness, and competence for affecting intrinsic motivation. We will discuss implications for practice in college education and in student and faculty well-being. Maria KolovouExploring the Processes and Factors that Affect Intrinsic Motivation
Faculty Lead
Interested in becoming a Faculty Lead? Or, would like to suggest new group themes/topics? We would love to hear from you! Contact us at PETAL@miami.edu