Mentors: Course Description


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Mentor's Course Description
The following course is offered for current and anticipated mentors in the VT Child Care Apprenticeship Program.
COURSE PURPOSE	To Increase leadership capacity.
METHOD	Leadership Processes: Proven interpersonal and conceptual skill development tools and leadership traits. Topics include leadership models, continuous improvement assessment, communication (briefings & professional writing). Group dynamics, decision making, activity management, planning, meeting management, productive teams, ethical dilemmas, change factors, and work place organizational structures, management and values. Continuous Improvement Assessment encourages self-knowledge and development. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Incorporates both the leadership and assessment processes. On-going Learning: Hands-on practice of leadership and assessment processes.
DELIVERY	Next Class to begin Summer 2005. Contact Sue Ryan at (802) 660-2914 or sue@vtchildcareindustry.org. 3 credits (graduate or under-graduate available)
DOCUMENTATION OF LEARNING	In addition to course requirements, students shall present a paper by the end of the year addressing one of two topics. Leadership Processes Paper: Adapt and test leadership processes in the workplace and report findings. Identify a specific leadership process or concept research it adapt and test in workplace and report findings.

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