Education - Mentoring the Urban Student

Mentoring the Urban Student (EDUC 1150)

Total Credits: 2
Lecture Credits: 2.00
Lab Credits: 0.00

Description: This course offers you an opportunity to enrich a young person's life through mentoring. Through collaboration with Big Brothers Big Sisters, you will be matched with a 6- to 13-year-old attending the Interdistrict Downtown School (IDDS). You will meet with the child at IDDS for an hour each week at a prearranged time based on his or her schedule. In addition, weekly course lectures and discussion occur online. You will examine the role of a mentor, the mentoring process, the urban context, developmental assets, bridging differences, boundaries and limit-setting, and issues that often come up in mentoring urban children and youth. No experience with children is necessary. You will need to complete a thorough application process through Big Brothers Big Sisters prior to the first week of class.

Topical Outline:

Learning Outcomes:
1. 1. Identify and follow organizational policies for the school-based mentoring programs
2. 2. Examine the urban context as it relates to mentoring
3. 3. Plan, establish and maintain a positive adult-child mentoring relationship
4. 4. Describe the wants, needs and dreams of urban children and youth and use the information to depend the mentoring relationship
5. 5. Recognize development assets and use that in the context of the mentoring relationship
6. 6. Reflect on the mentoring experience

Prerequisites: 

Placement score into READ 0200 or placement score into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052.