Mentorship Reflection

In September, I had the opportunity to visit the Naval Academy for a “Candidate Visit Weekend.” During my two-night visit, I was paired with a current midshipman, whom I accompanied to classes, meals, and a sports practice. Personally experiencing daily life at the Academy and meeting current midshipmen has reinforced my desire to join their ranks. The most inspiring thing about the midshipmen I met was the effort that they put into succeeding. Being a part of this culture, even for two days, has shown me that I can work just a little harder, and that I can push myself just a little further. Since returning home, I have done just that in numerous ways.

The United States Marine Corps is unfortunately involved in an underlying issue within its own ranks called hazing. Hazing is an overlooked problem being dealt with today in the military as it is enforced and prevented. As hazing is becoming more commonly identified, Marines are being held accountable. As you read this paper you will find out about this issue. You will be engaged in the Marine Corps order that covers this very topic. General James F. Amos scrutinizes the act of hazing in saying, “Hazing is contrary to our core values of honor, courage, and commitment and is prejudicial to good order and discipline.” He continues to explain that hazing greatly reduces morale, esprit de corps, pride, professionalism, and unit cohesiveness.

I work on a part-time basis and my tasks include sending the project briefs to business advisers at the beginning of the month and collecting their work at the end of the month. I received training on business mentoring, which is a way of supporting employees or colleagues related to coaching, during previous work, and in this role I communicate with an interdisciplinary team to coordinate the creation and distribution of project briefs across projects. I keep minutes at meetings and I draft letters and reports that are further passed on to advisers for finalisation. I provide clear instructions in the project briefs to each adviser, and in doing this I check the policies and internal guidance for the tasks to be done. For example, when an

The phrase “it takes a village to raise a child” could not be more true when it came to me growing up. Throughout my life I have had several mentors who helped shape my business ethic and improve my character. A mentor is critical to a person’s professional and personal growth by providing them with advice, knowledge, and leadership. The best way to acquire knowledge is for a person to read; but it’s always good to have someone that can suggest the right books.

At the beginning of the semester, I wanted to get to know my students in order to understand how I could utilize my role as a peer mentor, so I decided to have one-to-one meetings with each student during my office hours. This meeting allowed me to become familiar with all of the students in the course. It also allowed the students to meet me in my office hour location, which would then make them feel more comfortable to come for help. I feel as though I have established a positive relationship with my students where they feel comfortable enough to ask for help when it was needed.

During my time with the Project Engage 2.0 program this semester I took part in four different activities. These activities, while being fun, improved my leadership skills, team building skills, and my critical thinking skills.

directions and wanted to do his own thing. Both Ms. McComb and I had talked to Andy about

My goal was to connect with the mentor, which did not happen as anticipated. After making several phone calls and sending messages via email I was able to get a response from Cameron Eggie from The Gateway Of Hope in Langley. I will be going for orientation at 10 AM on the 30th of May.

Last year, I was a technology coach at Sherman Oaks Elementary. I conducted professional development regarding different technology tools to our staff. I also met with different grade levels, and individual teachers to draft lesson plans incorporating technology to enhance and revolutionized student learning. I have presented workshops at our Sherman Oaks University in English and Spanish to educate parents in regards to their child’s educational journey. I include topics that parents are interested in, and want to learn more about. I have also reached out and partnered up with organizations like the Bascom Library and Sacred Heart to serve the families in my school. I have been part of several focus groups. I worked with a district representative

In the beginning of this project we were required to get someone to be our mentor. The requirements of the mentor is to help us with our information and to help us add depth to our paper and powerpoint. During the semester that we were given to make our project we had to meet with our mentor two times and communicate through email.

In general, over the course of the lesson during the learning segment, students were formatively assessed multiple times. The first formative assessment during the direct instruction (first clip) is using choral responses when I am constantly asking them questions. For example, the first question I asked them at the beginning of the first clip was “How many drawings does Mrs. Higashi have per wall?”. The students responded with “19” in a choral unison. Throughout both clips I asked the class questions constantly to keep them engaged intellectually in understanding the mathematical concept of modeling division. By using choral responses, students were responding chorally which allowed me to check for my student’s comprehension and understanding

My senior year of high school I was a part of an organization called PALS, which stands for Peer Assistance Leadership Skills. In this organization you are a mentor to young kids in either elementary or middle school, these kids either have troubles at home, school, or any type of social problems. I was able to mentor 3 boys and it really changed my perspective on dealing with another persons feelings, and what’s going on in their lives.

Mentorship is very important in the workplace especially in the area of training and development. The mentor-protégé relationship is a much needed relationship that begins in the early career stage and this relationship involves the current or new employees and the supervisor or other colleagues that provide work-related guidance. The relationship itself is comprehensive and involves “educational, occupational, physical, social, and spiritual development” (Greenhaus,, Callanan, & Godshalk, 2010, p 211). One of the initial task of the early career the establishment of the career field which involves the gaining of the workplace competence, learn what is needed to excel in the organization, and to gain acceptance in the workplace to be recognized as the valued employee. There are many ways of achieving the above mentioned advantages in the workplace which one main method is through the use of the mentorship program.

My progression as a mentor in the course has taught me how to become a better person overall, but more importantly helped the students whom I was mentoring. I believe the two best strengths which I have in this course working with the grade has been, my patience and my ability to give clear instructions. Some days while working with the students it can become frustrating due to their behaviours, but despite all of that I have always kept my calm and been patient with them. Although it can be seen as a negative thing to stay quiet, it has helped me become a better tutor. Sometimes Jordan acts out and he becomes very loud and fidgety, when I keep calm and talk to him in a mellow voice he calms down as well. Being patient with Jordan has gotten him to quiet down and focus on his work many times, which is relieving for me and important to his success. Another important strength which I have is the ability to clearly give instructions, if a student is confused about the wording of a question it can throw them completely off. When I give instructions or explain an assignment to the students, I make it as clear and simple as possible

Wow! This first marking period flew by! It was long but also short, seemly taking a long time to get by but also breezing through like the wind through a flag. Every day at the beginning of class, we do this activity called Mentor Sentences. We read an excerpt of text and identify the figurative language or other writer’s craft in it and use that to write a sentence with those same techniques. I think that is has been really beneficial to me because I have combined certain strategies that I have not used that often. Every week we get syllabi, (which becomes a syllabus when you have a lot of them) and it outlines the week’s work for us. It’s really helpful because then you know all the due dates and you can work a little on each thing and you’ll get it all done. Each week we also have Root Words, where we take a root of a word, learn it’s meaning, find words with that root and that meaning and use them in sentences. Some examples of our root words are acou, which means hearing, aster, which means star and bibl, which means book. Remember that One Pager I made? Yes, that poster thing that I made and I furiously scribbled on it on the dinner table until I thought it looked okay. Mrs. Thompson hung them outside the classroom and lots of kids are up, and it was really cool to go out and look at all of them. This marking period, we held a dead verb funeral to bid them farewell from our writing. It was funny but also a little gloomy because of the poems that other students were