Student Mentor and Curriculum Collaborator

Outline of Activity

Student will mentor younger students within a module offering guidance to enhance their engagement and belonging. The students will also contribute and collaborate with staff on curriculum design helping them to offer a student centred experience.

Learning Outcomes

Students develop their mentoring skills through induction, mentoring and reflection.

Students employability will be enhanced with opportunities for:

• Presenting
• Team leadership
• Mentoring
• Contributing to curriculum meetings
• Providing student feedback
• Monitoring student groups performance
• Engagement

Assessment Details

The students must:

• attend the training induction session
• attend and contribute to mentoring sessions as timetabled by academic
• attend and contribute to reflective meetings as timetables by academic
• present a reflection on their contribution, their findings and their development from participating in the process - this can be a written report or an end of year presentation.

Level of Commitment

30 hours with 20+ hours mentoring and other hours involved in planning, reflection and collaborative design activities.

Related Staff

Dr Michaela Black

Senior Lecturer in Computing Science
School of Computing, Eng & Intel. Sys
+44 28 7167 5553
mm.black@ulster.ac.uk
MS127 - Magee campus

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