My Mentor Essay

The aim of this assignment is to critically reflect on the experience of mentoring and assessing a student in clinical practice. As the student was on a four week placement the assessment process will be discussed incorporating the qualities of the mentor and the effect it can have on the mentor/student relationship. In turn evaluating the learning environment and teaching strategies used including learning styles, reflecting on how they were applied to help the student. Finally, the evaluation of overall performance as a mentor. For the purpose of this work a pseudonym will be used to maintain confidentiality hence the student will be known as ’A’. ( NMC Code of Conduct 2007)

My mentor throughout my entire life was my many basketball coaches. Every each one of them help me out with my life in school by keeping my mind focus on how I need to do what is needed to be done first and extra activities last. They always say that you should do your work first and play after. Become a student athlete. The main that you want to do as an athlete still in high school is try to go to college with some type of sports scholarship since you do not need to pay for most of the college money. They also help me organize and prepare and be ready to win the next day. To always try your hardest and give 110 %. When I am in trouble during practice they would make you do extra exercise as a punishment but to never think of it as a punishment but as you putting in more

The Closing Bell Speaker Series “Iron Sharpens Iron”: Why Mentoring Matters So Much was presented by Forest Harper. Forest Harper is the current Chief Executive Officer and President of INROADS Inc. Harper grew up in a poor neighborhood in Fort Pierce, Florida. In high school, Harper was a star athlete in his high school’s Army ROTC program. He attended Morgan State University on a football scholarship. His plan was to become a professional football player. He suffered two knee injuries that ended his football career. He graduated from Morgan State University with a Bachelors of Arts in Social Work. After graduation, he joined the Army and served as a Lieutenant. He spent six years in the Army and rose up to the position of Captain. After the Army, Harper participated in the Executive Leadership Training program at Harvard University. Before becoming the president of INROADS, Harper worked at Pfizer for twenty-eight years. He started as a pharmaceutical sales representative and later became the Vice President of Capability Development in Worldwide Public Affairs and Policy. He was the only African American in his division. This fact inspired him to join INROADS and become a mentor to minority college student. His goal is to help get as many minority college students into the industry they choose. Harper’s own mentor is his uncle Walter Crenshaw, the oldest documented Tuskegee Airman.

In life, we all have a mentor who looks out for us. A figure that stands out and serves as a foundation for how our future ends up. Mentors can be our closest relatives, our best friends, or even people that we’ve never met, just those who stand out to us. Mentors teach us principles that they want us to follow and think is best. They mold us with their knowledge and shape us into people that they want us to be.

For this project my mentor will be mrs. Lourdes, she used to babysit me when I was little. She lives in Mexico and I had lost her phone number, therefore I had to do some investigation before I could contact her, but it was worth it. Her husband died when her children were very little but she kept going and gave all her four children a career. She paid for all their school supplies and believe me it was not an easy task, and she was always characterized for having a smile on her face and her willingness to help others

I was surprised when I learned that I didn’t have only one mentor, but I had three mentors. I was anxious as to who was going to be my mentor and felt scared that I wouldn’t be able to create a connection. One of my mentors had work that day, so I had to arrive a little earlier to have a quick talk. I thought this was going to be my only mentor but it wasn’t. I also, have Dani Barajas and Adrian Camacho as mentors.

Everyday Soldiers separate from the military, and everyday Soldiers are left without jobs. I read an article recently entitled “3 Important Reasons Why Having a Mentor Matters” by Joshlyn Ross. This article discusses why it is so important to have a mentor when looking into starting your own business, and what benefits it can have on your success. The first focus is that a mentor can provide you with expertise you might not have such as hiring needs, accounting needs, or marketing needs. Along with helping you identify the correct direction, the second reason mentors matter, is that a mentor can help you avoid common mistakes through real life experiences. The final focus is that having a mentor can set you up to be a lifelong learner in that as a business owner you are going to have to learn and adapt to changes

I really like how you present small snapshots of the narrator’s life and environment through each ‘couplet’/pairing of lines within this poem. However, I feel as though you are limited by the shortness of the poem, as you are not able to provide further details. I would recommend further fleshing out and developing the poem, if you feel that it is necessary or at all beneficial, but nevertheless, you are certainly able to convey a plethora of ideas in only seven lines—wonderful job!

Michael Portaro "Her kind" by Anne Sexton When I read this poem by Anne sexton it feels like she is taking us, the audience, on a bleak walk down memory lane. If you do any research on her, her life resembles that of a female lead from the tv show Mad Men. Sexton was a model as a young woman, married early, and tried her hardest to be happy as a housewife. She quickly realized that a pretty little home in the 'burbs wasn't all it was cracked up to be. These experiences often show in her poetry which lays bare all of the ways that her life has been punctuated by mental illness and circumscribed by rigid definitions of what a woman "should" do or think or believe.

Throughout the passage it reminds me of how I felt when my own Father left my family, for business reasons. He travel to Colorado for months at a time. I know the feeling of wishing someone would “drop from the clouds.” Though my Father wasn’t gone for 20 years, it sure felt like it. I was 11 when my father first told me he would be moving across the country for the next few months. My instant though was, “Well Dad, where am I going to live?” I could tell by the slight frown that drew upon his face, that coming with him across the country wasn’t in the picture. My tears began to well up in my eyes. Who would play tag with me in the yard, who buy me hot chocolate on a cold Sugarloaf day, who would be the one to drive me home from my many dance classes? The thought was hard to wrap my head around, just the idea that my best friend would be all the way across the country. I knew that if he had the chance, he would bring my whole family with him, but just the idea of that would overwhelming. It wasn’t a lack of love that would tear him apart from my family; he was simply providing and protecting

With the mid-semester already here, my mentor and I have fit into a routine where he expects our time together. Jason has seemed to have ease with excitement and is accustomed to having me as a mentor now. However, I feel as though since now he knows what days I mentor for him, this has caused some issues, as well as perks between us working together. I feel that I have been now doing this long enough to experience the best of both worlds when it comes to enjoying time with your mentee, as well as experiencing quite difficult moments and situations while mentoring. I am now accustomed to the rules and procedures that every student follows in the classroom, and in the hallways and on the playground as well. I am far into this program to better

The start of the 20th centaury there has been the approach that the Great man theories,qualiteis approach that great leader are born despite more interest being set in psychological theories.

The aim of this essay is to discuss on how the reflection on mentorship will be undertaken, how and why the model of reflection will be used and the importance of confidentiality. I will reflect the mentorship by ensuring that the mentee during clinical practice is put at ease throughout the learning experience of four weeks (Quinn, and Hughes 2007, p. 29). Also, I will use the principle of Kolb’s learning cycle as my model of reflection because reflecting is an essential element of learning. As I am the mentor, I will follow this cycle in a clockwise direction with Jude, so she would have to reflect on the skills learnt by reviewing the whole situation (Kolb’s learning cycle 1984 in Rose and Best 2005, p.129). This would enable Jude to

a. My interviewing skills have come to help me know my mentor (Harriet Kulakoff) as a person because they allowed me to engage with her in conversation not only about her thoughts on healthy aging but to explore some of her interests such as playing tennis and golf or going swimming. Throughout the interview, building off the questions asked by my team members I was also able to illicit her opinion about varying issues including the use of social media and gain her thought on the younger generation and what we can do to support each other as we age as well as become more engaged with each other in light of our seeming dependence on social media. It was an enriching experience to listen to my mentor and having the right interviewing skills to ensure that both she, myself and my team members were comfortable and engaged aided in us having a successful and productive interview.

With the development of the more organic and less formal organisational structures the role of mentors has shifted with these changes. Unlike previously where mentors where seen as formal trainers who taught newcomers the processes and got them acquainted with the cultures and the systems within the organisation. Which required good interpersonal skills and a good knowledge of the activity or tasks the mentee would have to undertake, and be able to effectively relay or demonstrate the tasks or activities to the mentee. As opposed to more recently where a mentor would have to be more of an emotional counselor and demonstrate more skills than were traditionally required from