The faculty mentoring program is based on a relationship between faculty colleagues, where one shares their experience with another, under a fundamental premise: the creation of capabilities for human flourishing, through development in the most relevant aspects of their teaching work.

It is an initiative aimed at reducing the learning and adaptation curve to the Tec21 Educational Model, enhancing the talent of professors to ensure quality in its implementation.

What is expected from you as a mentor? 

First, complete the Introduction to Faculty Mentoring course in Success Factor, which your mentoring coordinator will assign to you. 

Once your coordinator has assigned you a professor to mentor, it is important that you contact him/her within 24 hours, introduce yourself, and try to set a date for the first meeting. 

What happens if the professor does not reply to your emails? 

Your responsibility as a mentor is to make the first contact. If there is no reply, it is expected that you send a second email within 72 hours. If there is no reply to the second email, inform your coordinator. 

What should you do once you have established contact with the professor? 

The mentor is expected to be flexible in scheduling in-person meetings. In the first meeting, you should establish the objectives of the mentoring process and build rapport with the professor. 

How many sessions should you have with your mentee professor? 

If you are mentoring a new faculty member, it is expected to complete a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 4 hours of work, covering aspects of didactics, use of technology, enablers, communication, and classroom work. 

If you are mentoring a professor in the Faculty Practice Improvement Program, it is expected to complete a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 8 hours of work, focusing on areas the professor wishes to improve, in order to establish a work plan for improvement. 

What should you do if, after starting the mentoring process, the professor stops replying to emails or decides not to continue with the program? 

The mentor is expected to ask for the reason why the mentee professor can no longer continue, and notify the coordinator.  

Where can you find support resources for your role as a mentor? 

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What administrative tasks must you complete? 

Completing the logs and follow-up files (as indicated by your coordinator) and sending the start and end surveys for new faculty, and the end survey for faculty in the improvement program, is part of the mentor's role and is expected to be done 100%. 

The success of mentoring is the responsibility of the mentee professor. The mentor's role is peer support, and mentoring must take place in an environment of confidentiality and respect.