The ISLE ISU leadership conference was a great way to gain a different perspective for approaching the leadership role of peer mentor. The first session I attended was concerning leadership roles and styles, and really helped me connect to what type of leader I have been in the past and what type of leader I hope to become. This session defined different aspects of leadership roles, and what it means to be an efficient and impacting leader.
The second session I attended was dedicated to meeting agendas and helped participants understand what is necessary to achieve focus and involvement in their specific meetings. What I really liked about this session was the acronym SMART which had to do with goal setting. The acronym stood for specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. I had never heard of this acronym before, and after becoming aware of how to apply it, I feel like I have a better understanding of achievable goal setting.This session also discussed the differences between intentions and outcomes which helped me further understand what realistic leadership goals to set for myself, and what realistic goals to set for the meetings that I will be conducting.
Overall I found the conference very beneficial, and it made me think a lot about myself. The sessions made me realize that the control is in my hands as an individual leader, and it is up to me to determine what type of leader I will be, and what type of impact I will make on the peers I mentor.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
First thoughts/Students Helping Students ch.1-2
To be honest I am not much of a blogger, however my first experience with blogging was with the recitation section of UST 111. Blogging can be useful if used responsibly, and following blogs can definitely become a huge waste of websurfing time. I am looking forward to the experience with the different assignment requirements associated with our Hixson blogs and correspondence between all the peer mentors.
The beginning of Students Helping Students helped further my understanding of the role a peer educator plays in colleges all over the world. The book uses a lot of great definitions and exercises to trigger a new way of thinking and approaching the role as a peer mentor. I personally found the five principles to guide peer mentor work as extremely applicable to situations I experienced as a first year college student, and becoming aware of the principles helped me focus on my individual growth and different adjustments throughout my previous semesters.
The beginning of this book builds the framework of becoming and sustaining the active role as a peer mentor, and provides the reader with different lenses in which to view their specific situational call to leadership and mentoring. This book reads as if it were a handbook which contributes to its readability, and the different hypothetical scenarios and exercises included trigger individualistic lesson responses. Overall I am excited to continue reading this book and take all that I can from the lessons and experiences it has to offer.
The beginning of Students Helping Students helped further my understanding of the role a peer educator plays in colleges all over the world. The book uses a lot of great definitions and exercises to trigger a new way of thinking and approaching the role as a peer mentor. I personally found the five principles to guide peer mentor work as extremely applicable to situations I experienced as a first year college student, and becoming aware of the principles helped me focus on my individual growth and different adjustments throughout my previous semesters.
The beginning of this book builds the framework of becoming and sustaining the active role as a peer mentor, and provides the reader with different lenses in which to view their specific situational call to leadership and mentoring. This book reads as if it were a handbook which contributes to its readability, and the different hypothetical scenarios and exercises included trigger individualistic lesson responses. Overall I am excited to continue reading this book and take all that I can from the lessons and experiences it has to offer.
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