Dear Louisa,
This sounds like an awful lot of form filling. We need to find some way to navigate between necessary accountability, without the audit process becoming intrusive and thus taking over the aims and conceptions of the work; an inevitable effect of the bureaucratisation of practice.
I agree with Simon that it shouldn't be too difficult for a mentor to write something, preferably succinctly, identifying key issues and the work being undertaking in response. Much more than this becomes overkill. Students should be signing for attendance each session, with a few words indicating the areas of focus. One form for the term or semester or short invoicing period should be sufficient.
Kind regards,
Penny Georgiou
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Sent: Fri 16/10/2009 10:56
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Subject: Re: ILP for Study Mentor
At London South Bank University we introduced some useful forms last
year that all mentors need to fill out:
One is the Mentoring Plan, Progress and Summary report which engages
both the student and mentor to plan what they are going to do in their
mentoring sessions. It also gives both the student and mentor an
opportunity to see what progress has been made in the sessions, which
in itself will build the student's confidence and self-esteem.
We have a Mentoring Log so every session the mentor and student fill
out what they did in the session and the student counter-signs it to
agree that is what they have done
We have a Mentoring non-attendance form so we can monitor students who
cancel or no-show.
Through evaluating and monitoring both the students and mentors
experience, we have found our system has worked very well with
students with MH problems as it gives them a sense of solid structure
and boundaries.
Louisa
Louisa Beejay
Disability Officer(Mental Health)-Mon,Wed, Thur, Fri
London South Bank University
Disability and Dyslexia Support
Perry Library, Level 4 Bridge
103 Borough Road
London
SE1 0AA
0207 815 6612 (Direct line)
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Sent: 16 October 2009 10:45
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Subject: Re: ILP for Study Mentor
Without trying to sound deliberately controversial, I think that
mentors
should start producing ILPs.
Needs assessors meet with a student once, for around two hours, and
may
recommend mentoring for an hour or so per week, but given the high
costs
associated with mentoring (the average figure seems to be around £60
per
hour) I don't think it unreasonable that the mentor produce a couple
of
sides of A4 to explain what all of this money has been spent on,
especially where this support is deemed necessary over three years.
Three years of mental health mentoring at around £60 per hour will
equate to around £5,400.
I'm still amazed at the lack of clarity from us a sector as to what
mental health mentoring actually consists of: some HEIs chiefly use
peer
mentors or study buddies, others use more experienced mentors who may
have some form of professional m/h background, but I don't think a
definitive explanation of what goes on in these sessions exists.
Perhaps
that's fine, as every student and their needs are different, but if
that
is true than surely it is not too onerous a task to ask for a learning
plan outlining what goals, aims and objectives can be expected for the
£60+ per hour that is being charged.
I have asked our mental health co-ordinator, who line manages our
mentors, to put this into place from the start of this term. From what
I
gather this is par for the course in FE already.
Simon
Amanda Kent wrote:
> I agree with Marie - check the intention with the person in
Darlington who
> sent the student's DSA agreed recommendations letter out. Or just
email
> DSA_team and someone will answer.
> I have a recent examples of mentoring agreed at 2 hours per week for
one
> student, one hour per week for another over a 34 week year. No ILP
request
> on either of them. However, I also have an example of a student with
10
> hours a week of note-taking support being asked for an ILP - I
understand
> the disability adviser has reassured the student this is probably an
'delete from
> standard pro-forma' error.
>
> Amanda Kent
> DSA needs assessor
>
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:06:10 +0100, Marie Norris
<Marie.Norris@CLEAR-
> LINKS.CO.UK> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Heather,
>>
>> It might be just worth checking whether the person who sent the
letter
>> actually meant to include that paragraph. We have had a few where
the
>> paragraph has been included in erorr for things such as notetaking
and
>> also study buddy. I think it was in the template and not removed
because
>> the staff are busy.
>>
>> Best wishes, Marie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support
staff.
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian F.
>> Sent: 15 October 2009 17:01
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: ILP for Study Mentor
>>
>> That does seem like a large amount of support, but if it's clearly
>> justified then SFE really should explain why they've turned it down
or
>> have placed barriers to the student receiving the support
recommended
>> for them. Obviously they're not just trying to use a "one checklist
fits
>>
>> all" approach when processing DSA applications, as we all know from
>> years of experience it's just not possible to do that! It would
explain
>> alot, though ...
>>
>> Ian Francis
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Heather Blundell wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All
>>>
>>> We are increasingly receiving requests from SFE to provide and
ILP's
>>>
>> for study
>>
>>> mentoring and study buddying. A recent needs assessment has
>>>
>> recommended
>>
>>> 64 hours study buddying for 34 weeks. Very detailed justification
has
>>>
>> been
>>
>>> given for this.
>>>
>>> SFE have agreed mentor hours - 10 hours initially (to be
reviewed),
>>> *If you feel that 10 hours will not be sufficient or if at a later
>>>
>> date you feel
>>
>>> you may go over these initially agreed hours then please have your
>>>
>> tutor
>>
>>> provide an ILP outlining the progress you have made, what
strategies
>>>
>> require
>>
>>> clarification and how many hours you need in addition.
>>>
>>> My understanding was that if the needs assessor deemed in excess
of 10
>>>
>>> hours necessary and gave justification then SFE would accept this.
Is
>>>
>> my
>>
>>> understanding inaccurate?
>>>
>>> In addition may I ask if there is a non SpLD ILP out there as I do
not
>>>
>> want to
>>
>>> reinvent the wheel by creating a new one. I would argue that
study
>>> mentoring is very different to 1-1 specialist SpLD provision and
as
>>>
>> such does
>>
>>> an ILP capture this fully.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions greatly recieved.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> Heather
>>>
>>>
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Simon Jarvis
Head of Disability & Dyslexia Service
Student and Campus Services
Room FB 2.30, Francis Bancroft
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Tel: 020 7882 2765
Fax: 020 7882 5223
www.scs.qmul.ac.uk
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