Role of Peer Mentoring in Psychology Teaching Assistant Development

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Amlung ◽  
Melissa Dengler ◽  
Elizabeth Simpson ◽  
Brian Stone ◽  
Grace Williams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Peer Mentoring ◽  
Teaching Assistant

scholarly journals Redefining the learning space: Developing peer mentoring in the enterprise curriculum

2020 ◽  
pp. 095042222098126
Author(s):  
Andrew P Hird
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Peer Mentoring ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Hygiene Factors ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Considerable Strain

This account of practice seeks to demystify the entrepreneurship classroom and to provide practical insights into the successful introduction and embedding of a multi-level peer mentoring scheme. Over a 5-year period, peer mentoring has been embedded in an undergraduate enterprise curriculum. This has posed challenges to a number of taken-for-granted assumptions about the enterprise classroom. The role of the tutor in the classroom was redefined; the roles of both colleagues and students were questioned. The accepted rules and norms of the learning environment were placed under considerable strain. It was found that both colleagues and students had very clearly defined expectations of one another and their respective roles: these proved difficult to change. The article recounts the journey, and how the organisers learned to accept and embrace the difficulties faced. Hygiene factors such as timetabling and communication were highly important in allowing the interactions to take place, as were socialisation and facilitation. The mistakes made are also recounted so that they can be avoided by other practitioners.

The Role of Higher Education and Peer Mentoring in Student Success

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Y. Deneice Berry
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Peer Mentoring ◽  
Degree Attainment ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
College Administrators ◽  
Barriers And Challenges

Students are faced with many challenges before entering college. Those challenges make it difficult for students to reach degree attainment. Vulnerable populations are predisposed to barriers and challenges that impede their progress to achieving academic success. By integrating peer mentoring as a framework, we will better understand how to serve our vulnerable populations and the role higher education institutions play to meet students where they are. College administrators are typically responsible for strengthening the values, mission, and goals of the college. However, do they have a social responsibility to also make sure all students succeed? This chapter provides a student success tool that addresses some of those barriers while promoting student success. This chapter will provide the need for a mentoring program for college students and will discuss various peer mentoring models that can assist with retention and degree attainment.

scholarly journals Using the Engagement Profile to Design an Engaging Robotic Teaching Assistant for Students

Robotics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Cooney ◽  
Wolfgang Leister
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Humanoid Robot ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Teaching Assistant ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Wizard Of Oz ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Future Work

We report on an exploratory study conducted at a graduate school in Sweden with a humanoid robot, Baxter. First, we describe a list of potentially useful capabilities for a robot teaching assistant derived from brainstorming and interviews with faculty members, teachers, and students. These capabilities consist of reading educational materials out loud, greeting, alerting, allowing remote operation, providing clarifications, and moving to carry out physical tasks. Secondly, we present feedback on how the robot’s capabilities, demonstrated in part with the Wizard of Oz approach, were perceived, and iteratively adapted over the course of several lectures, using the Engagement Profile tool. Thirdly, we discuss observations regarding the capabilities and the development process. Our findings suggest that using a social robot as a teaching assistant is promising using the chosen capabilities and Engagement Profile tool. We find that enhancing the robot’s autonomous capabilities and further investigating the role of embodiment are some important topics to be considered in future work.

scholarly journals An Overview of the Teaching Assistant Consultant Program for Developing Competency in Novice Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistants

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kush Bubbar ◽  
Alexandros Dimopoulos ◽  
Cynthia Korpan ◽  
Peter Wild
Keyword(s):  
Student Teaching ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Teaching Assistant ◽  
Specific Model ◽  
Dynamic Learning ◽  
Graduate Teaching ◽  
International Teaching ◽  
Specific Implementation ◽  
The University

As engineering education strives to progress towards a student-centric learning model, a competency gap with future educators becomes more apparent. In particular, the expectation of graduate student teaching assistants (GTAs) in attaining teaching competency to support this dynamic learning environment, often without sufficient training, is unrealistic.In the following paper, we present an implementation of the flexible Teaching Assistant Consultant (TAC) program, which serves to support the development of novice GTA competencies using a discipline-specific model with emphasis on assisting the unique challenges of international teaching assistants.We introduce the specific role of the TAC in terms of core principles and deliverables, and the strategic structure of the campus wide program at the University of Victoria. We conclude by detailing the specific implementation of the program in engineering by illustrating the role and deliverables of the engineering TAC.

The Role of Peer Mentoring in Universities

2017 ◽  
pp. 6-20
Author(s):  
Louise Frith ◽  
Gina May ◽  
Amanda Pocklington
Keyword(s):  
Peer Mentoring
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