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"A mentor is not someone who walks ahead of us to show us how they did it.
A mentor walks alongside us to show us what we can do." ~Simon Sinek
Available for all faculty at Temple College are mentors who will help walk alongside you. You can choose to contact:
General faculty mentors: They can look over your D2L shells, add you to their shells, give advice, listen, or guide you along the way
Specialty mentors: These are individuals who have learned how to use a specific technology or received training in educational concepts.
Mentoring networks: These are groups of faculty who assist each other in areas of interest (modalities, technology, equity, and Honorlock). Join the group here:
Reach out to any of these individuals.
Faculty Mentors
Faculty Mentors
Specialty Mentors: D2L
Specialty Mentors: D2L
Specialty Mentors: Educational Concepts
Specialty Mentors: Educational Concepts
Specialty Mentors: Technology
Specialty Mentors: Technology
Specialty Mentors:
Specialty Mentors:
Use of Resources and Grants
Use of Resources and Grants
Mentoring Networks available for TC Faculty Spring 2022
Equity (click on link if interested)
Helping all students be successful does not have to mean recreating your class from scratch. In this roundtable session, participants discuss ways in which they have adopted an equity mindset by implementing some small changes that made big impacts on student success.
Modalities (click on link if interested)
Many TC faculty are finding we are planning for more and more modalities. Whether it is online, F2F, hybrid, 16-week, 8-week, hyflex, we are being challenged like never before to find creative solutions to teaching MLO's in a variety of formats and time periods. Learn from other faculty how they are handling the planning and the management/grading of multiple modalities.
Technology (click on link if interested)
TC faculty have more technology tools available to us than ever before. Yet, how do you use the technology tools in the midst of everything else going on? What tools save the most time? How are other faculty managing the D2L multiple shells? Learn how some faculty are using technology in easy ways to make a big difference for both students and faculty.
Honorlock/Testing/ Assessment (click on link if interested)
Test security is an important issue for faculty. Hear what others are doing to alter testing formats to meet the needs of students and how to best use Honorlock features to have integrity in your testing.
Mentoring Networks
Traditional mentoring builds on a model of assigning a novice to a guru. This often is ineffective because of differences of personalities and styles. However, the lack of effectiveness is also due to the dynamics of guru and novice relationship which makes several false assumptions:
1. The guru knows all.
2. The novice knows little.
3. The guru and novice can teach the same way.
4. The guru and novice want to teach the same way.
Instead, as we all know, the truth is:
1. The guru does not know it all.
2. The novice has knowledge to share as well.
3. No two faculty teach the same way.
4. No two faculty want to teach the same way.
Instead, let’s apply these principles to mentoring at Temple College:
· All of us are lifelong learners.
· All of us have something to contribute.
· Someone else’s strengths may help me in my weakness (and all of us have weaknesses).
· "Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds." Alexander Graham Bell
Note the emphasis on collaboration below that will empower you to try out new practices and refine these practices:
The mission of the Temple College Center for Teaching and Learning is to encourage student success by promoting collaboration among learning communities and providing evidence-based resources that empower faculty and staff to test and refine innovative practices.
The goal of this Teams group is to allow for mentoring networks. We hope this Teams group allows for collaboration, allows for the sharing of resources, allows a forum for questions and challenges, and emphasizes the importance of working together to make our lives better and to help our students succeed.
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