models for mentoring

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# models for mentoring
## opportunities and challenges
### mine çetinkaya-rundel 🐦 <a href='https://twitter.com/minebocek'>@minebocek</a> ✉️ <a href='mailto:cetinkaya.mine@gmail.com'>cetinkaya.mine@gmail.com</a>
### jsm 2020

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## Scale vs. personalisation

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.hand-gray[Many (mentees) to few (mentors)]
- Great for community building among mentees
- High reach, low "cost" (in terms of mentor time)
- Personal relationships harder to establish
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.hand-gray[One (mentee) to one (mentor)]
- Great for building personal relationships
- Matching requires more care
- Harder to scale
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.center[
.large[[**preparingtoteach.org**](https://preparingtoteach.org/)]
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## Preparing to Teach

### [**preparingtoteach.org**](https://preparingtoteach.org/)

- Preparing for Careers in Teaching Statistics and Data Science Workshop
- JSM 2018, JSM 2019, eCOTS 2020

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- Support from NSF, jointly held with IMS New Researchers Group

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- Slack channel for continued conversation
- Bi-monthly calls on career, teaching, research related topics 
  - Let me know if you'd like to join us!

.hand[Thanks to Beth Chance, Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, Ulrike Genschel, Jo Hardin, Nick Horton, Donna LaLonde, Allan Rossman!]

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## Preparing to Teach

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**Opportunities**

- Building a network
- Mentees becoming mentors
- Raising voices *
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**Challenges**

- Building and sustaining a *community*
- Personal relationships
- Rewarding those who mentor
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.footnote[
.small[[*] Call recaps by Allison Theobold at [preparingtoteach.org/post](https://preparingtoteach.org/post/), workshop recap by Sara Stoudt at [citizen-statistician.org/2020/06/preparing-to-teach-2020-what-did-we-learn](http://www.citizen-statistician.org/2020/06/preparing-to-teach-2020-what-did-we-learn/).]
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.center[
.large[[**bit.ly/ssdse-mentoring**](https://bit.ly/ssdse-mentoring)]
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## SSDSE Mentoring Program

[**bit.ly/ssdse-mentoring**](https://bit.ly/ssdse-mentoring)

- Goal: "Provide career advice and mentoring to help statisticians with a focus on teaching
and education achieve their professional goals."
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- Mentees interested in graduate, undergraduate, and HS teaching as well as career advice/advancement, leadership/management/communication skills, career goals, etc.
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- Mentor's role: teaching, problem solving, motivating, guiding, coaching
- Mentee's role: learning, decision making, initiating, risk taking, goal setting
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- Unprecedented interest this year! 
  - Sign up to be a mentor at [forms.gle/wa5AEaTQMkXBHuPj9](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmwQ5lFCi5xtBuCVPOCC4csouLrOtQYjLQTKOZoFDxwZGChg/viewform)

.hand[Thanks to Jenny Green and the [mentoring committee](https://bit.ly/ssdse-mentoring)!]

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## SSDSE Mentoring Program

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**Opportunities**

- Established structure and support from Section
- Building personal relationships
- Mentorship outside of one's institution

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**Challenges**

- Scaling
- Recognition
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## Closing thoughts

- Time is short? Consider **drive by mentoring**:
  - Pass opportunities to colleagues who are earlier in their careers
  - Offer mentorship for the *particular* opportunity you're passing on
  - Pay attention to the diversity profile of those you reach out to

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- Recognize a need but unable to build a program? Plug in to **established communities**:
  - e.g., R-Ladies - [rladies.org](http://rladies.org/)
  - Direct your students/early-career (or late-career!) colleagues, volunteer your time

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- Building a new program? Consider
  - **artefacts** mentees can "graduate" with
  - mentors **internal and external** to institution
  - **recognition** for mentor and mentee effort