Importance of Mentoring and Developing a Mentoring Program

Report on Mentoring
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
Literature Review............................................................................................................................3
Discussion of action research project..............................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................9
Critically reflection......................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Mentorship is the responsibility where an individual person has to direct and guide their
student and or mentee and deliver the appropriate knowledge and education from which they can
be able to grow and develop in effective manner. The report generally discuss the importance of
the mentoring and develop, implement and evaluate a mentoring program along with specific
needs of the mentee in regard to mentoring activities (Shelley André, 2018). At last, it also
mention the reflection part upon own learning areas from this particular project report. From the
initial phase of the assignment, mentorship program which was run for the mentee who wants to
learn about Bangladeshi dishes.
1. Project learning contract
It involves the brief details about the project so that it can be cleared to learner, short
details like project initiation and ending dates should also be present in such contracts so that
proper layout can be followed for better completion.
Date: 1/4/2022 End date: 15/4/2022
Student name: John
Faculty name: XYZ
Objective: Objective of this to make mentee learn about the Bangladeshi recipe through
mentoring session. Main aim is/was to make the learner have good grasp over the cooking
knowledge as this session was conducted run for 10 days through zoom software.
Main purpose: As through this learner were able to develop understanding about the cooking,
so that they can implement it in their career as well. Learner could also be able to follow the chef
path for their career (Mullen, and et.al., 2021).
Methodology: For teaching the cooking lesson, zoom software are used as an online medium,
and also by developing the list of the learning outcomes for every mentoring session will help in
making learner knowledgeable regarding cooking (Briscoe, and et.al., 2019). Due to the
pandemic covid impact mentoring cannot be done face to face so Zoom alternative can be used
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as it offers the better features that helps in mentoring. As in this mentoring mutual peer
mentoring can also be carried out by using Zoom software that are mainly supervised by the
tutors at the university. At first it is important for the mentee and mentor to fill the consent form
in order to prevent from any miserable situation, thus for mentoring the mentee for Teaching the
Bangladeshi dishes consent form is being filled, which shows the willingness of the participants.
Mentor also ensured that the mentee was not allergic to some ingredients and hence list of
ingredients have been provided. Therefore for this mentorship program already consent form has
been taken out which covered the all information that helps in avoiding the unethical problems.
Literature Review
2. Develop, implement and evaluate the mentoring programme that represents the critical
awareness about the relevant literature
Mentoring program was not easy task it comes with the responsibility for the mentor to
make their mentee completely understood about the specific topic. To develop a mentor
program, it is important to arrange all the resources and design the strategies that can be further
implemented in the mentoring program. As to address the particular topic, mentor must have the
enough knowledge so that they can continue their mentoring program with efficiency. In context
with to mentoring the peer about the Bangladeshi cooking, it is important for the mentor to have
enough knowledge about it. As per the view of Broughton, and et.al., (2019) mentoring program
is the structured and systematic approach that requires the strategic planning to increase the
knowledge and develop the skills for future milestones. As for developing the mentoring
program it is essential to define the purpose and goals, therefore in regards with the given
scenario mentoring program should be done for 10 days and it was implemented through the
Zoom online software to make then mentee to learn about cooking the Bangladeshi dishes (Rice
and et.al 2020).To monitor the success of the mentee in ending of every session some question
answer session was there to test the knowledge of mentee, thus it would help in providing the
clear clue so that further mentoring process can be proceed. According to the piaget theory it is
found that human have the four distinct development stage for progress which is sensorimotor,
preoperational, concrete, and formal operational stages. It suggests how child develops a mental
model of the world. Regarding this mentoring case mentee is at formal operational level as it is
found that mentee is adult, thus in this it is obvious they think about moral, ethical and social
issues. Thus, in such it is important for the mentor to begin with the deductive approach as to
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start from general principle to specific information. In case of this mentoring program all ethics
were performed by the mentor to ensure the safe delivery of the learning session.
As feedback is the efficient process to evaluate the mentoring programme, it will help in
improvising the mentoring process (Ferreres, 2018). To mentor the mentee about the cooking it
is important to have the flow of effective communication it helps in laying out the better and
productive results. Feedbacks process can be easily evaluated as it guides in enhancing the owns
work. Thus, in cooking mentoring, it is already conduct through the online medium which means
mentee might be less interested in learning process, thus for such it is essential to conduct
questionnaire round in between that help in increasing the focus. Also, questionnaire guides in
clearing the doubts, with this mentor would be able to improve in their teaching method so that it
leads the mentor to clear all the queries of the mentees. According to the view of Cochran, and
et.al., (2019) mentoring program can be implemented with the proper strategies so that it gives
the assurance for efficient completion of such program. In such it is necessary that to analyse the
learner’s need that guides in developing the plan, it helps in increasing the focus on those areas
which are required to improve. For that reason, it is also important to match the mentors and
mentees that helps in balancing each other’s weakness and strength. Therefore, it is also a
challenge for selecting the suitable mentor that have the knowledge about their mentoring topic
guides in effective mentorship. In context with the Vygotsky’s theory it suggests that human
progress as the socially mediated approach where the children mainly acquire their cultural
aspects and believes. Thus mentor also done some ethical approach to ensure inclusivity and
diversity in the mentorship program. Also mentor has ensured their activities so that in any
instance it does not hurt the cultural values of mentee.
Therefore, for the mentoring session for teaching the cooking lesson, it is important to
ensure that particular mentee is familiar with the Bangladeshi dishes as it helps in them to
develop interest about particular things that also helpful for the evaluation of such process. It is
often fins that some of the users do not have the enough knowledge to operate with the software,
thus it is the responsibility of the mentor to know their mentee is able to use the software. In this
case mentor can proceed to analyse the mentee’s knowledge to operate with the Zoom software.
As it is important otherwise mentorship program for cooking learning cannot be done efficiently
or appropriately. Author DeMaria, (2020) stated that one should have the leadership and
coaching skills that guides in throughout the project, which also gives the assurance for the
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