The First Year Matters: Being Mentored.....in Action

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By fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion during recruiting, onboarding, and in the day-to-day environment, companies send a signal that they take inclusivity seriously.

It also provides topics of discussion for meeting with their mentor, activities for discussion, and goal setting for the coming month. I think it continues throughout one’s life, one’s always changing but particularly kind of prevalent at that age and so you’re going from having a group of friends that you know and that can support you and teachers that know you, to large classes where the teachers may not even get to know your name, the lecturers certainly don’t and you may not be going with your buddies from school so you’re having to make new friends.

Organized in the same month-by-month format, The First Year Matters organizes the first hectic year of teaching so that new teachers and student teachers can have a ready reference for their thoughts and journal entries.

This book provides a month-by-month outline of the school year for new teachers so curriculum-based topics can be discussed in a more systematic way. All of the support systems that we have, which are very robust, to support students through academic skills, development and exam preparation, developing their own personal skills through peer support. Our weekly meetings include challenges of multiple difficulty levels, bootcamps covering topics essential to turning a computing passion into practical skills, tech talks introducing new and trendy Open Source tools to help you out on your journey.But there is one thing which we want students to be able to do and that is for them to be able to be comfortable with not knowing, with feeling a little vulnerable (absolutely) and finding ways of working through those things and developing identity and a sense of belonging. If his motor skills are falling behind, he may also need a physical therapy (PT) and OT evaluation and if his social skills have truly regressed, he may need an evaluation from a neurologist. Your school will advise on any timetable changes that are made once teaching has started, so you'll need to keep an eye on Blackboard for any last-minute changes that may affect whether you need to come to campus or not. The most interesting thing about crawling, in my opinion, is that it also helps visual development and reading skills later on! Inspire: Every student takes at least one course in term one on topics of interest that light their fire for learning.

Yeah I mean, collaboration and social learning are so important and one of the things that we try to do, both online now, obviously but also on our physical campus is provide students with bases that support and encourage collaborative learning, group learning interaction. The goal has to be to create an environment where employees feeling comfortable being themselves from day one—and the great news is that it can be done. Of course we also have social events giving us all a great chance to get to know the rest of Manchester’s Computing community better.

As LGBTQ+ employees are hired, companies should immediately connect them with mentors who can help them navigate their careers and can be a resource for managing any concerns or issues. So, we do centre on the student but that centredness has kind of, maybe tentacles like an octopus out to other things.