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Title: Increasing Student Success: A Faculty Cohort Mentoring Story
Mentoring has been used in higher education to support faculty growth and targeting the mentoring relationship to changes in classroom practice can help to inspire transformational growth in an institution. Further, pairing mentors and mentees in professional development focusing on constructing practices to support diverse learners builds reciprocal mentoring relationships in line with relevant literature. Such a reciprocal mentoring program was developed for mathematics faculty at a two-year Hispanic serving institution. Valencia College in Orlando, Florida, serves around 75,000 students annually with approximately 235 mathematics faculty. Faculty across the seven main campuses were given the opportunity to participate in the mentoring program and professional development designed to foster inclusive classroom practices and active learning. Cohorts underwent professional development in the summer and engaged in mentoring in the Fall semester. Two cohorts have participated in the faculty mentoring program (n=26, 25). Over 200 classroom lessons centered on inclusive active learning were developed and implemented from the pairings, indicating a substantial change in instructional delivery. Qualitative feedback from mentors indicated appreciation of the reciprocal nature of the mentoring relationship. In qualitative and quantitative preliminary results, mentees describe engaging in more student outreach and reported an increase in knowledge of inclusive active learning techniques and their importance.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2111262
PAR ID:
10636132
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Corporate Creator(s):
Editor(s):
Trube, M; Martinez, W; Dominguez, N
Publisher / Repository:
The UNM Mentoring Institute
Date Published:
Edition / Version:
1
Volume:
8
Issue:
3
ISSN:
2372-9848
Page Range / eLocation ID:
452-457
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
mentorship program higher education active learning
Format(s):
Medium: X Size: 94kb Other: pdf
Size(s):
94kb
Location:
doi.org/10.62935/4p5cxu
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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