Entering Mentoring
Optimizing Mentoring Relationships: Entering Mentoring
Entering Mentoring is an evidence-based, interactive mentor training curriculum that engages mentors at all career stages in collective problem-solving and connects them with resources to optimize their mentoring practices.
Research mentor training based upon the book Entering Mentoring has been tested and shown to be effective in increasing mentoring knowledge, skills and behavior. Furthermore, culturally responsive interactions between mentors and mentees can help historically underrepresented mentees successfully progress in their research careers, becoming effective mentors, scientific leaders and research team members of the future.
Objective
The goal of our mentor training is to accelerate the process of becoming an effective research mentor by providing mentors with an intellectual framework, an opportunity to experiment with various methods, and a forum to solve mentoring dilemmas with their peers. By the end of the training, mentors will have articulated their personal mentoring style and philosophy and will have a toolbox of strategies to use when faced with difficult mentoring situations.
Themes and Concepts
Once your training is scheduled, you will meet with a CIMER Principal Facilitator to determine the themes to customize your training. The following themes are included in our mentor training curricula:
- Aligning Expectations
- Could incorporate any existing agreement
- Articulating Your Mentoring Philosophy and Plan
- Assessing Understanding
- Cultivating Ethical Behavior
- Enhancing Work-Life Integration
- Enhancing Cultural Awareness*
- Fostering Independence
- Fostering Wellbeing
- Maintaining Effective Communication
- Promoting Mentee Research Self-Efficacy
- Promoting Professional Development
- Could incorporate existing IDPs
- Establishing a Practice of Inclusion (formerly Addressing Equity & Inclusion)
*Enhancing Cultural Awareness is not currently available publicly. Please request access via our form.
Review the learning objectives (PDF) for each theme.
Implementation
We offer customized research mentor training workshops led by CIMER Principal Facilitators. Workshops range from one day to multiple days and are available to mentors of undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows or faculty working with trainees across disciplines. The training is available in person at your organization for up to 32 participants, or online for up to 24 participants.
Copyright
CIMER mentor/mentee training curricula (“CIMER Curricula”) are based upon the curriculum in the publication Entering Mentoring (Pfund, Branchaw, & Handelsman, 2014) and Entering Research (Branchaw, Butz, & Smith, 2019) and are used/adapted with permission from W.H. Freeman/Macmillan Learning.
Copyrights for the CIMER Curricula are managed by CIMER and the Wisconsin Center for Education Research on behalf of each work’s respective author[s]. The user of the CIMER Curricula shall have and is hereby granted a limited license to copy and distribute the CIMER Curricula for personal and educational in-service uses only. Any use of the CIMER Curricula shall maintain the provided attribution[s]. Any use of the CIMER Curricula beyond this limited license requires express written permission from CIMER.
