Engaged Mentoring

Expectations and structure:

• Accountability Strategies: SCOARE Mentor Workshop handout

• Ten simple rules for developing a mentor-mentee expectations document (Kristyn S. Master and Pamela K. Kreeger, PLOS Computational Biology)

• “My Ph.D. advisers expected weekly progress reports. I’m glad they did” (Pijar Religia, Science Careers Column)

• Scientific Communication Yearly Progress Report

• Calendly: A scheduling tool for organizing meetings with mentees.

• The Pygmalion Effect: Proving Them Right (Farnam Street): The Pygmalion Effect is a powerful secret weapon. Without even realizing it, we can nudge others towards success. In this article, discover how expectations can influence performance for better or worse.

Acknowledgement:

• Acknowledgement Strategies: SCOARE Mentor Workshop handout

• The neuroscience behind appreciation | 90 Seconds w/ Lisa Kim [video - see below; 3:41] (Stanford Medicine): Two new studies led by Stanford Medicine researchers examined whether we work, behave and feel differently in virtual versus in-person interactions and what's going on in our brains. They found that while people generally worked just as effectively in both situations, online interactions tended to reduce a particular aspect of conversation known as turn-taking—switching speakers. In these virtual meetings, less turn-taking was linked to less positive feelings about the interaction.

Feedback:

• 9 Tips for Giving Better Editorial Feedback ((Mis)Adventures in Publishing blog)

• Effective Feedback for Better Learning (Natalie Saaris, Actively Learn)

• Directive Versus Facilitative Feedback (University of Groningen)

• Minimal Marking, Maximum Learning: Strategies for grading efficiently & effectively (Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, Elon University)

• Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen (book)

• Developing Feedback Resilience - webinar recording (NIH Becoming a Resilient Scientist Series, Unit 4)

General tips and tricks:

• Engagement Strategies: SCOARE Mentor Workshop handout

• General Scientific Communication Mentoring Tips & Tricks (Carrie Cameron)

• The Supervision Whisperers: A blog dedicated to the topic of supervising a thesis, co-edited by Dr Inger Mewburn, founder of The Thesis Whisperer and Director of Research Training at the Australian National University and Dr Evonne Miller, Director of QUT Design Lab, Creative Industries at Queensland University of Technology.

• The Art of Scholarly Mentoring (Robert Lefkowitz, Inside Higher Ed): Nobel Laureate Robert Lefkowitz shares 10 golden rules gleaned from a half century of mentoring hundreds of research trainees.

• We Don’t Need More STEM Majors. We Need More STEM Majors with Liberal Arts Training (Loretta Jackson-Hayes, Washington Post): The ability to draw from other disciplines produces better scientists.

• The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students (Valerie Strauss & Cathy Davidson, Washington Post): Broad learning skills are the key to long-term, satisfying, productive careers.

• Learning to Communicate in Science and Engineering: Case Studies from MIT by Mya Poe, Neal Lerner, and Jennifer Craig (book)

• Working with Non-Native Speakers of English (L2's) [video - below; 50:32] (Carrie Cameron)