Undergraduate curricular peer mentoring programs : perspectives on innovation by faculty, staff, and students / edited by Tania Smith.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Smith, Tania, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Mentoring in education.
• College teaching.

Physical Description:

xiii, 278 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2013]

Summary:

Curricular peer mentoring is a programmatic approach to enriching student learning and engagement in postsecondary courses in which instructors welcome a more experienced undergraduate student into a credit course they are teaching. The student then serves as peer mentor to the students enrolled. Peer mentors can provide a variety or peer-appropriate, course-specific mentoring, tutoring, facilitation, and leadership roles and activities that complement the roles of the course's instructor and teaching assistants both in classroom settings and beyond. A program provides training and ongoing support for a larger number of peer mentors and instructional teams and manages recruitment and program research and quality. Undergraduate Curricular Peer Mentoring Programs provides research findings, definitions, theories, and practical program descriptions as a foundation for program development and research on undergraduate curricular peer mentoring programs in higher education. This work builds on a long history of higher education program development and collects a significant amount of literature that has previously been scattered. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Introduction: the history and scope of curricular peer mentoring programs / Tania S. Smith
• Defining features of curricular peer mentoring programs / Tania S. Smith
• Discipline-focused peer mentoring: peer teaching in biology at the University of British Columbia / Carol Pollock
• Peer mentoring in a team-taught interdisciplinary course: engaging the 21st century student through peer-led learning / Tina Pugliese, Tamsin Bolton, Veronika Mogyorody, Jill Singleton-Jackson, Robert Nelson & Ralph H. Johnson
• Peer mentoring in large-scale first-year programs: academic peer mentors in first-year courses at the University of Texas at Austin / Jennifer L. Smith
• Peer mentoring in a technical institution: undergraduate mentoring in software engineering / Sanjay Goel
• Hosting peer mentors in a senior interdisciplinary course: notes from a pre-history of peer mentoring at the University of Calgary / Marcia Jenneth Epstein
• Supporting peer mentors: recruiting, educating and rewarding peer mentors / Kate Zier-Vogel and Andrew Barry
• Case studies of conflict and collaboration: supporting teaching assistants who work with peer mentors / Bryanne Young
• Conclusion: program development and sustainability / Tania S. Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780739179321
• 0739179322
• 9780739179338
• 0739179330

OCLC:

811598031