Academic year/semester: 2024/25/2

ECTS Credits: 4

Available for: All OU students

Lecture hours: 0
Seminarium:0
Practice: 1
Laboratory: 0
Consultation: 0

Prerequisites: -

Course Leader: Prof. Dr. György Molnár

Faculty: Kandó Kálmán Faculty of Electrical Engineering, 1084 Budapest, Tavaszmező utca 17.

Course Description:
Responsibilities of the student mentor, data management of the mentored. Specificities of peer mentoring roles. Mentor responsibilities related to role provision. Getting to know the peer mentor and the specificities of communicating with them. Developing relationship skills. Explore the mentor\'s prior knowledge, subject skills and personal characteristics. Subject-specific support (mentoring and tutoring). Identification of mentoring problems. The need for personal mentoring support for successful learning progress. Designing mentoring support. Methods of mentoring support. Motivating the mentored. Peer learning strategies and techniques. Diagnostic-, formative assessment-, sensitive feedback/evaluation in tutoring. Processing, analysis and evaluation of contemporary mentoring/tutoring case studies. Results of mentoring/tutoring work, holistic evaluation of the mentored/tutored

Competences:

Topics:
1. The role of the mentor in reducing drop-outs and catching up. Responsibilities of the student mentor, data management of the mentored.
2. The specificities of contemporary mentoring roles. Mentoring tasks related to role provision.
3. The person of the mentor, the need for competence in mentoring. Getting to know peer mentors and the specificities of communication with them. Developing relational skills.
4. Exploring the mentored person\'s prior knowledge, subject skills and personal characteristics.
5. The characteristics of adult learning.
5. Subject-specific support for the mentored (mentoring and tutoring).
6. Identifying mentoring problems. The need for personal mentoring support for successful learning progress.
7. The objectives of mentoring, the stages of mentoring, the spectrum of mentoring.
8. Designing mentoring support.
9. Choice of mentoring strategies and their specificities. Methods of mentoring support. Motivating the mentored.
10. Peer learning strategies and techniques.
11. Developing reflective thinking. Levels of reflection. Possibilities for self-development.
12. Processing, analysis and evaluation of contemporary mentoring case studies.
13. Diagnostic-, formative assessment-, sensitive feedback/evaluation in mentoring.
14. The results of mentoring, holistic evaluation of the mentee. Aftercare of the mentored.

Assessment: The way to obtain a mid-term mark is to develop 4 required mid-term assignments and to develop and upload 1 tutoring/mentoring plan in Moodle. The mid-term mark is determined by the average of the 5 sub-tasks.

Exam Types:

Mid Term Exam

Compulsory bibliography: 1) The Effectiveness of Peer Tutoring in Further and Higher Education: A Typology and Review of the Literature Author(s): K. J. Topping Source: Higher Education , Oct., 1996, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Oct., 1996), pp. 321-345 Published by: Springer Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3448075 2) István Perjés-K Katalin Héjja Nagy (2018). Online mentoring handbook, ISBN 978-615-5297-77-9 ISBN 978-615-5297-78-6 [online], https://www.eltereader.hu/media/2018/02/PerjesMentoralasiKezikonyv_READER1.pdf 3) Dr. Molnár, György (2014) Digital learning support in mentoring, Budapest, Hungary : BME Department of Technical Pedagogy, 125 p. 4) Ildikó Holik - István Dániel Sanda (2017). Communication for future engineers. Óbuda University, Budapest

Recommended bibliography: 1) Rodgers, C. (2002). Defining Reflection: Another Look at John Dewey and Reflective Thinking. Teachers College Record, 104, 842-866. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9620.00181 , https://www.canr.msu.edu/bsp/uploads/files/reading_resources/defining_reflection.pdf 2) Ferenc Makó (2016):Methods of mentoring in professional teacher education. Typotop Publishing House, Budapest, Professional Teacher Education series, ISSN: 2598-7123, https://regi.tankonyvtar.hu/hu/tartalom/tamop412b2/2013-

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