Programme 363, Lin Goodwin on Mentoring

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

Theme tune by David Vesey

On this week's programme I interview Professor A. Lin Goodwin, Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong and formerly of Teachers College, Columbia University about mentoring and teaching. Among the topics we discuss are the following:

• What mentoring is and is not
• Everyone can be a mentor but people need to learn to mentor
• Her experiences of being mentored by Celia Genishi
• The kind of honesty that mentors need to have
• The kind of feedback that is helpful
• Skills and behaviours of mentors
• Mentoring future researchers
• Mentoring future teachers
• Mentors learning from mentees
• Letting mentees make mistakes
• Problems if a mentor is reluctant to give candid feedback
• Why having a framework or a mindset is better than having a formula for giving feedback
• Getting away from looking at teaching dichotomously
• Mentors for different occasions
• Reluctant mentees
• Some moments are more productive for mentoring than others