Professional Mentoring Service

Purpose

This program focuses on both advanced graduate students and early career faculty (both will be referred to as early career – EC).  The aim of the Professional Development Program is to provide EC individuals with career-related assistance to improve their performance early in their academic careers. In addition, it is hoped that mentors will benefit from developing their mentoring skills or learning about a new topic from engagement with their mentee.

Program

The program is built around the needs and interests of the EC individual, who will specify her or his goals and interests in the application. Mentors will be matched based upon these interests. The program is international, although most participants are in the continental United States, and it is unlikely mentors and mentees will be geographically close to one another. Therefore, communication will likely take place through phone, internet (Skype), and email.

As the program develops webinars and other resources may be available, in addition to special meetings at annual conventions held by the American Psychological Association or the Association of Psychological Science.  

Eligibility & Interest Surveys - Mentors or Mentees

Mentees

• Have less than 5 years of psychology teaching experience; you do not have to be an STP member (although we hope you might become one!). Mentees may be teaching or planning to teach at the post-high school level.  
• Complete the interest survey (to assist with matching) by clicking here: http://tinyurl.com/msjwhb7
  

Mentors

• Mentors are members or Fellows of STP and have at least 7 years of psychology teaching experience.

• Volunteer to mentor by completing the interest survey by clicking here: http://tinyurl.com/agchth6

Questions, Suggestions?

Contact Dr. Lunsford, Director for Professional Development Programs, by email at mentoring@teachpsych.org.