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Dear Gareth Taking this idea further, student maths mentors might benefit from taking a coaching course to develop listening and coaching skills and learning to avoid premature solutions. We built a 24 hour course around ideas in the Egan Coaching book 'Skilled helper' - see attached . I am sure it could be shortened. One of our notable successes was a student who had failed GCSE maths was able to help a student doing Alevel maths successfully and another that a panic in an ICT lesson was headed off by a student sharing resilience strategies. All good wishes Sue JW Sue Johnston-Wilder, FIMA, FHEA, CMathTeach Associate Professor of Mathematics Education Centre for Education Studies University of Warwick | Coventry | CV4 7AL t: 07787402766 e: [log in to unmask] http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ces/research/current/mathematicsresilience http://www.mathematicalresilience.org/ http://<http://www.mathematicalresilience.org/>blogs.warwick.ac.uk/maths_resilience/<http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/maths_resilience/> "Maths anxiety is acquired, disabling and treatable." ________________________________ From: The sigma network for cross-university mathematics and statistics support <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Woods, Gareth <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 31 January 2018 08:32 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Maths Mentors Dear all, I’m looking for some help and advice please. We are currently in the process of hiring some student maths mentors to help in our maths support centre. We are looking at using them to run some topic specific workshops to foundation and first year students. I was wondering if anyone had any experience of using students in their maths support centre, and also what training they were given? It would be great to hear about any of your experiences. Gareth Dr Gareth Woods The Learning Development Centre Aston University Birmingham B4 7ET