Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Sarah Root, University of Arkansas; Emine Cagin, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

13.998.2Different approaches to mentoring GSIs currently exist in current literature and practice. Westudied examples of previously implemented faculty-student mentoring, peer mentoring in pairs,and centralized peer mentoring programs for comparison with the EGSM initiative.Faculty-graduate student teams can effectively give the GSI a teaching internship opportunitywhere the GSI shares the teaching responsibilities with a faculty mentor 3, 4, 5or even serves as theprimary instructor with the faculty member in a supervisory role.6 In some cases, faculty- andGSI-development professionals provide consulting and mentoring services.7 This technique hasproved effective for helping the graduate student grow as a teacher and prepare for an academiccareer. While