To build a successful mentoring environment and experience, we use a robust approach with three key components which are outlined below. Through this approach, we strive to create a high-quality mentoring experience for all trainees, faculty, and staff.
Understanding Mentoring: STEM-ME Framework
STEM-ME framework enables us to better situate, understand, and push on the mentoring systems that are needed to bring about change. We assess CELL-MET in terms of: who are assets, stakeholders, and stewards in mentoring ecosystems and identify potential gaps and opportunities.
Mentoring ecosystem model
Mondisa, J. L., Packard, B. W. L., & Montgomery, B. L. (2021). Understanding what STEM mentoring ecosystems need to thrive: A STEM-ME framework. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 29(1), 110-135.
Mentoring Context: Communities of Practice
Communities of practice helps us think about the setting and context in which mentoring takes place.
Definition: A group of people who share a common concern, a set of problems, or an interest in a topic and who come together to fulfill both individual and group goals.
Communities of practice often focus on sharing best practices and creating new knowledge to advance a domain of professional practice. Interaction on an ongoing basis is an important part of this (Lave & Wenger, 1991).
Building Mentoring Skills: Mentoring Workshops
Our four-part mentoring workshop series guide and support both mentors and mentees in navigating the mentoring relationship.
Our four-part model of mentoring skills development
