My Mentoring Essay

Conclusion:

And, here’s a summary or conclusion of my research project report:

• I made ‘Mentoring through Questioning’ a strategy for my research project.

• My own daughter (a year 10 student at Wellington High School) came up with her concerns about her subjects’ selection for year 11 (from a wide range of options) which would help her future career aspirations.

• I decided to be her mentor and she readily agreed to be my mentee for my research project and make a report out of it.

• For my mentoring sessions, I conducted 3 sessions of 20 to 30 minutes each.

• Each of those sessions was recorded.

• After each session was completed and recorded, I took special time for myself to listen to those recordings which helped me reflecting my own perspective and improving my mentoring strategy of asking relevant questions.

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• The questioning proved to be important as well as very useful in getting the answers from my mentee, and this made me understand the mentee’s concerns and queries very clearly.

• Thus, I could find the void areas of my mentee’s confusion and was able to guide her in clearing all the doubts.

• Once the queries were discussed and addressed, my mentee was in a better position to shortlist her subjects along with the reasons and finally, she could make her final decision of the subjects to be selected for the next year (year 11).

• Another important factor to make an impact on the mentoring session was getting the feedback from my mentee.

• After the feedback was received, I was able to get my mentee’s perspective, which proved what I lacked and what I achieved during my entire mentoring experience.

• And this feedback has helped me in further learning, to correct my mistakes, make the planning and/or considerations or actions that I would apply to my own mentoring skills in any of my future mentoring