20: Graduate Student Mentors: Meeting the Challenges of the Ongoing Development of Graduate Student Instructors
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Training and mentorlng Graduate Student Instructors (GS Instructors) at large institutions presents three challenges to instructional developers: 1) training numerous GSInstructors from multipledepartments. 2) the vastarray ofduties GS Instructors needtrainingin. and3) thecontinualsophistication ofGS Instructors. Here wedescribe howthe College ofEngineering at the University ofMichigan has met these challenges through the use ofGraduate Student Mentors (GS Mentors). GSMentors areexperienced GSInstructors whoaretrainedto mentorand advise theirpeers. U7tdiscuss how the GSMentors areselected, trained, and supervised, and how theyhavehelped to meetthe chal/enges outlinedabove.
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