What does the role of mentor/supervisor involve?

Mentoring of students in TFE-P: Leadership in Practice and The Studio involves:

• willingness to support the Educational Philosophy of TFE and the specific focus of this unit of TFE.
• self-understanding as a learned and experienced guide willing to venture into unknown territory (“the future that is seeking to emerge”) with a student for the purpose of mutual learning in the face of change
• willingness to prompt strategic thinking about the ministry leadership opportunity the student is exploring/pursuing
• willingness to prompt on-going, sometimes in the moment, discernment and reflection about adaptive leadership
• willingness to be consulted about assignments
• willingness to offer and discuss with the student recommended resources relevant to ministerial or community leadership
• willingness to provide mid-point and final-year reports to the Director of Theological Field Education
• willingness to develop, agree to, and remain faithful to terms of accountability in the Learning Covenant approved by the Director of Theological Field Education

Supervision of students in TFE-FC: Leadership in Faith Community involves:

• willingness to support the Educational Philosophy of TFE and the specific focus of this unit of TFE.
• self-understanding as a learned and experienced guide willing to venture into unknown territory (“the future that is seeking to emerge”) with a student for the purpose of mutual learning in the face of change
• willingness to prompt strategic thinking, including theological reflection, on the challenges of ministry leadership in the specific ministry context
• willingness to work with the student to focus on the requirements of their denomination or faith group
• willingness to prompt on-going, sometimes in the moment, discernment and reflection about adaptive leadership
• willingness to be consulted about assignments
• willingness to find ways to provide ‘hands-on’ experience as appropriate
• willingness to offer and discuss with the student recommended resources relevant to ministerial leadership, with specific focus on the denomination
• willingness to make mid-point and final-year reports to the Director of Theological Field Education
• willingness to develop, agree to, and remain faithful to terms of accountability in the Learning Covenant approved by the Director of Theological Field Education