All teaching students are assigned a mentor, usually at the beginning of the semester before the one when they are assigned to teach.
Students will prepare a syllabus for the course, including an outline for the course, and submit both the syllabus and outline to the teaching mentor, at least three weeks before the beginning of the teaching semester
Students will include the faculty mentor on their Canvas course list, as an “observer”
Faculty will approve the syllabus within a week (unless otherwise arranged with the student), and will arrange for two (2) class observation days
At the end of the term, both faculty and student will submit a brief assessment to the director of graduate studies that describes how the semester went.
Assignment of Teaching Mentors
First year professors, post-docs, and temporary lecturers are exempt from serving as mentors
Faculty on sabbatical are exempt
Faculty shall mentor on a rotating basis (if 6 faculty are mentors in 2020-2021, then ideally a different 6 faculty shall mentor in 2021-2022 but if 7 are needed in 20-21, then one of the 6 from an earlier year could be in the rotation for the 20-21 year but will not need to be included in the 21-22 rotation, etc.)
No faculty shall mentor more than 2 students per semester but the preferred number is 1.
Ideally, faculty should mentor a student for whom they are not the major professor. The reason for this is so that students receive a diversity of experiences from a diversity of faculty.
Ideally, faculty should mentor students who are teaching in an area of sociology with which the faculty member is familiar.
All resources that are made available to students shall be made available to faculty via a “group” Box.usu.edu or a Canvas website account.
Students and Faculty may use a Faculty Resource Person, as appropriate.
