Final week of learning sessions

Last Thursday was our last class with learning sessions.  I have to give credit to Makayla and Nicole their chapter was a challenging one to teach.  I had it last year.  Most of the chapter is a bit of review of previous chapters so you have to find a balance of trying to teach new material and incorporating bits of the old material.  The "dating game" for peer mentors was a really fun activity and helped solidify the importance of peer mentors and used the peer mentors that are most commonly used by students on our campus. We need to be aware when other peer mentors on campus could be more helpful to our students than us.  I think it is also important to recognize some of our duties as a peer mentor for the Hixson program will overlap with other peer mentor positions on campus.

We were also able to finally figure out when our class will be held next year.  I think we have had the chance to understand the difficulty scheduling this class when we look at the difficulty we have had getting time to film our DST.  We have had the chance to learn from our mistakes with this DST project so that we can encourage our mentees to not make the same mistakes next fall.  I am excited to see how our DST turns out on Thursday.  It always amazes me how various clips can be incorporated together with some editing and form a pretty good short film.