Madison Teaching & Learning Excellence Faculty Learning Community : Mentoring
Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER)
- CIMER's "Entering Mentoring" WorkshopFor mentors of research trainees. It was originally developed for mentors across science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) disciplines at different career stages, working with undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty.
- CIMER's "Entering Research" WorkshopAn evidence-based, active learning curriculum designed to level the research playing field for undergraduate and graduate research trainees from historically underrepresented groups, introduce trainees to the culture of research, support development of the skills trainees need to successfully navigate the research training environment and their mentoring relationships, and create a more welcoming research environment for all trainees. This curriculum was originally developed for use with trainees across science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medical (STEMM) disciplines.
- CIMER's "Mentoring Up" WorkshopAn active learning approach designed for post-doctoral scholars and junior faculty to support development of the skills needed to successfully navigate the research training environment and proactively manage their mentoring relationships. The curricula integrate topics from Entering Research and Entering Mentoring to develop mentoring up skills. These curricula were originally developed for use with trainees across the science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) disciplines. These curricula address important topics and concepts in research mentoring and training by creating learning communities and engaging post-doctoral scholars and junior faculty in activities, assignments, case studies, and facilitated discussions to solve mentoring dilemmas and share successful mentoring up strategies.
CIMER mentoring texts:
Entering Mentoring by Call Number: We've requested the most recent (2015) edition of this text from the libraries and will update this link accordingly.ISBN: 9781464184901Publication Date: 2015This revised edition is designed for those who wish to implement mentorship development programs for academic research mentors across science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and includes materials from the Entering Research companion curriculum published in 2010. This revised edition of Entering Mentoring is tailored for the primary mentors of undergraduate researchers in any STEM discipline and provides research mentor training to meet the needs of diverse mentors and mentees in various settings. You can find the 2015 edition on the publisher's website. We've put in a library request for an ebook and will update this page with a direct link if it is successful.
Entering Research by Call Number: Available in hardcopy via the libraries.ISBN: 9781319263683Publication Date: 2019-07-10For students whose experience with science has been primarily in the classroom, it can be difficult to identify and contact potential mentors, and to navigate the transition to a one-on-one, mentor-student relationship. This is especially true for those who are new to research, or who belong to groups that are underrepresented in research. The Entering Research curriculum offers a mechanism to structure the independent research experience, and help students overcome these challenges.
- "Mentoring Research Writers"Brad Hughes, UW-Madison Writing Center's Emeritus Director, has distilled and adapted aspects of the Entering Mentoring text into a short, writing-specific overview that many MTLE fellows have found useful.
- Entering Mentoring Curricula PreviewEntering Mentoring curricular resource PDFs organized by discipline.
Mentoring Learners in STEMM
In December 2017, the National Academies assembled the Committee on the Science of Effective Mentoring in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine to produce a new consensus study on evidence-based approaches to mentorship in STEMM for students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The following website and downloadable PDF highlight the key lessons from the committee’s literature review and listening sessions.
Conferencing With Learners
Teaching One-to-One: The Writing Conference by Call Number: Full ebook available through the WAC Clearinghouse.ISBN: 0-8141-5188-4Publication Date: 2015 (original published in1986)One of the most widely cited books on conferencing. Harris offers a theoretical framework for conference teaching, descriptions of activities typical of and central to writing conferences, advice on diagnostic strategies for individualized instruction, and instructional strategies. Discussions in the book borrow from a wide range of fields, including counseling and therapy, cognitive science, anthropology, and education. In appendices, Harris includes a set of teaching materials that can be useful for training purposes.