The teaching mentor programme

The teaching mentor programme

At NHH, new employees are offered to be part of a teaching mentor programme. The ones participating will be assigned a senior colleague from the department as a mentor for friendly peer to peer discussions and follow up. If you would like to take part in the programme, either as newly employed at NHH or as a mentor, contact your department or Frank Mortensen.

THE GOALS

  • For the new faculty member
    • Welcome! We hope you will thrive and enjoy working at NHH
    • Faster and better initial orientation: Learning About the School
    • Faster and better development of professional practice
    • Integrating the mentor program in the overall programme for pedagogical development at NHH
    • The mentor programme may be a part (one module = 50 hours) of the overall 200 hours programme for pedagogical development at NHH
  • For the mentors
    • An opportunity to contribute to the working environment at your department and at NHH
    • Learning and reflecting - by observing and discussing
  • For the school
    • Development of a professional learning community

 

THE PROGRAM CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING ELEMENTS:

  1. Keeping track of the individual programme (to be filled out and kept updated by the new faculty member)
  2. A day with pedagogy
  3. A day with the administration
  4. The mentorship
  1. Planning the teaching and starting the mentor relationship
    1. Before semester start
    2. A course description (or similar) by the new faculty member
    3. Send it to the mentor
    4. A meeting with the mentor
    5. Discussing the course description
    6. Planning the mentoring relationship to get the most out of it. Could be discussed: Regularity of meetings, boundaries to be set, goals for the teaching experience, preparation for meetings, e-mail a summaries of meetings, keeping track of the individual mentor programme
  2. The teaching
    1. Mentor visiting lectures
    2. What would you or the mentor like to focus on?
    3. Examples of observation forms that may be used instead
    4. A meeting with the mentor
  3. The evaluation of the course
    1. The new faculty members written evaluation of the course is sent to the mentor
    2. Discussions and feedback from the mentor

Keeping track of the individual programme (to be filled out and kept updated by the new faculty member) 

 

COMPLETION OF THE PROGRAM

The mentor writes a Letter of Recommendation and forwards it to the head of the department and Frank Mortensen.

The mentor programme may be part of the overall 200 hours pedagogical training programme for faculty at NHH.

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