Super 7: EDC639 Syllabus

EDC 639 "Syllabus" (taken from the Bb site on December 30, 2004)

Course Overview

As part of EDC639 you will read about how to work effectively as a mentor and then you will actively mentor another individual or a team, using the techniques you have read about and discussed. As part of this mentoring process you will plan, implement, reflect on, and share your reflections on your mentoring efforts.

You will also build an electronic portfolio with artifacts documenting your mentoring experience. As part of this process you will reflect on your team building and team leadership skills.

Course Goals:

*Understand mentoring models, theory, and practice
*Develop your skill as a mentor and develop your understanding of team leadership and team building
*Plan, implement, document and discuss a mentoring project
*Participate in online discussions of mentoring topics

Expectations

All students must have and maintain Internet access for the purposes of exchanging email, communicating in the class newsgroup and publishing on the World-Wide-Web. Students are expected to check their email and class newsgroup daily and to bring laptops to face to face sessions.

Students are expected to participate in online and face 2 face discussions. They are also expected to complete all course projects. Students are strongly advised to read educational journals, books, computing magazines, and any trade publications that would enhance their understanding of education, educational computing and curriculum design. Such information makes a welcome contribution to classroom dialogue, online discussions and group projects.

In their electronic journals students will respond weekly to assigned readings, provide updates on mentoring/coaching progress and any other materials that may contribute to personal understanding or the learning of the group.

Teaching Methods

This course will use teaching methods appropriate for adult learners that will aid students in achievement of learning objectives. These will include small group experiential activities, large and small group dialogue, use of appropriate technologies, instructor presentations, and student presentations.

Eighty percent of this course will be conducted online through synchronous and asynchronous communication/collaboration tools.

Readings
Everyone will read:
Huang, C.A. & Lynch, J. (1995). Mentoring: The TAO of giving and receiving wisdom. HarperSanFrancisco: San Francisco, CA. ISBN: 0-06-251250-1
Huang and Lynch show us a very different view of mentoring, one that is more consistent with some of the current thinking about mentors and mentees both learning from each other.

Who Mentored You?
This will give you the information you need for the first activity.

National Mentoring Project
Download from here the Learn to Mentor toolkit . This is a 33 page PDF document that we will be using for the first several weeks of the course.

In addition ...

Educators will read:
Ellison, J., & Hayes, C. (2003). Cognitive coaching: Weaving Threads of Learning and Change into the Culture of an Organizations. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon.
Ellison & Hayes introduce us to a form of mediation that may be applied to professional interactions in a variety of settings and situations with the intention of enhancing self-directed learning. Cognitive CoachingSM is a composite of skills and strategies, maps and tools and mental models and beliefs. Cognitive CoachingSM produces learners who are higher achieving, more cooperative, and better problem solvers.

Business & Organization people will read:
Zachary, Lois. (2000). The mentor's guide: Facilitating effective learning relationships. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, CA. ISBN: 0-7879-4742-3
Zachary offers metnoring guidelines that are relevant in any learning organization, whether it is a business setting or an education institution.

Schedule
Eighty percent of this course will be conducted online through synchronous and asynchronous communication/collaboration tools.

(Synchronous) Online Chat:
* Super 7 will meet on Thursday 5:00 p.m. or 8:00 p.m.
* 7th Sense will meet at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday and 7:00 a.m. on Friday.

All times listed are in Pacific Daylight time. We will met in TAPPED IN http://www.tappedin.org/pepperdine EDC639 Group room to do one of three kinds of things:
• engage in discussions,
• display and discuss resources, and
• meet for office hours 1:1 or in small groups.

These dates are tentative.
JAN >> 6, 13
FEB >> 10, 24
MAR >> 3, 17, 31
APR >> 7, 14

(Asynchronous) Discussion and Reflection Forums: This is where most of the asynchronous class discussions take place, in part because we all have time to reflect and a running record of what has been said by whom. Postings should move the discussion forward. Plan to spend at least 1 hour, 2-3 times per week contributing, reading and responding to colleagues postings. Blackboard http://blackboard.pepperdine.edu/

(Synchronous) Orlando, Florida
7th Sense: January 29, 2004 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in the Pelican Room
Super 7: January 30, 2004 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. in the Dolphin Room