{"id":1652,"date":"2015-10-27T21:11:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T03:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2015-10-27T21:11:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T03:11:29","slug":"self-mentoring-and-self-regulating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/self-mentoring-and-self-regulating\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Mentoring and Self-Regulating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I attended a 4-day mentoring conference in Albuquerque, NM.\u00a0 This conference offered so many different workshops about various perspectives of mentoring.\u00a0 As I think about all that I learned at this conference, I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about self-mentoring.\u00a0 In addition to attending this conference, I\u2019ve been reading <em>Creating Self-Regulated Learners<\/em> by Linda B. Nilson.\u00a0 This book has really made me reflect on self-regulated learners and what that looks like.<\/p>\n<p>So by combining the idea of self-mentoring and self-regulated learners, I cannot help but wonder how I am doing as a learner.\u00a0 Am I aware of my goals as a professional, an instructor, and a member of my department?\u00a0 What about the institution\u2019s goals?\u00a0 Am I upholding those goals?\u00a0 All this really got me wondering how I manage the goals and expectations that I place on myself and that others place on me.\u00a0 How do I know if I\u2019m following through?\u00a0 How do I know that I am upholding these goals?<\/p>\n<p>This questioning got me wondering even more.\u00a0 Am I self-mentoring and self-regulating like I\u2019m expecting my students to do?\u00a0 How can I help them if I am not doing the same for me?\u00a0 As I was reading Mrs. Nilson\u2019s book, I was immediately struck with an understanding of identifying the needs of my learners.\u00a0 She says that, \u201cTurning our students into lifelong learners no longer translates into the academic ideal of producing widely read cultural elites, but rather equipping our graduates with basic economic and survival skills\u201d (Nilson, 2013, p. 1). \u00a0\u00a0For me, it\u2019s not about assigning a certain number of pages to read each night or a certain number of papers to assign.\u00a0 It\u2019s about integrating skills that support and challenge the learners in my classroom.\u00a0 It\u2019s also about encouraging the students to push themselves as learners and to be aware of themselves as learners.\u00a0 \u00a0For specific strategies and tips, I highly encourage reading Linda Nilson\u2019s book.<\/p>\n<p>Nilson, L.B. 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