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IELP uses assistance, providing, developing and support as a leadership model.
- · Assist students to achieve their goal of learning English
- · Provide safe and encouraging environment
- · Develop students’ intercultural understanding
- · Support students as they navigate their life in the US
"The IELP student Mentor Team is a group of students who studied in the IELP and are currently studying at PSU in various majors! The mentors can answer questions about the IELP program, life in Portland, and studying at PSU, or they are available simply to chat!"
My Responsibilities as a Mentor :
- To serve as a resource for and introduce the IELP, PSU, Portland, and American university life to students.
- Provide support for the IELP students, Activities office, and program.
- Welcome and interact with students and teachers.
- Assist the Student Development Manager with program activities throughout the term.
How has my Work as a Mentor Impacted me?
Working as an IELP (Intensive English Language Program) mentor has enriched my perspectives of global citizenship. Meeting different students from all around the world and continents and having the opportunity to exchange notions of issues exposed me to the surprising similarities and fascinating differences of human race. Despite the differences that I find between cultures, it has been a huge surprise to discover that those people, regardless of their different food, norms, and traditions, are the same at their core. Being a mentor connected me with people from different cultural backgrounds and new experiences. Every time I speak with an international student, I get awarded with an intimate look into what it must be like to live in their countries. My position exposed me to new knowledge and that has changed the way I understand and interact with other people. It is similar to learning about the function of the muscles and joints in the human body before and after working out: being conscious of the specific way that things work together further influences your understanding of them.
Before working at the IELP, the different worldviews and cultures and their importance was nothing of my concern. However, my position lead me to be a global citizen; someone who is passionate to learn about others’ experience and understand that there are many ways to live the life and that no one is better than the other. It made me go beyond the borders of geography and the borders of my mind and rid myself from preconception. I learned that it is all about challenging yourself to seek out others rather than waiting for them seek out you.
Working as an IELP (Intensive English Language Program) mentor has enriched my perspectives of global citizenship. Meeting different students from all around the world and continents and having the opportunity to exchange notions of issues exposed me to the surprising similarities and fascinating differences of human race. Despite the differences that I find between cultures, it has been a huge surprise to discover that those people, regardless of their different food, norms, and traditions, are the same at their core. Being a mentor connected me with people from different cultural backgrounds and new experiences. Every time I speak with an international student, I get awarded with an intimate look into what it must be like to live in their countries. My position exposed me to new knowledge and that has changed the way I understand and interact with other people. It is similar to learning about the function of the muscles and joints in the human body before and after working out: being conscious of the specific way that things work together further influences your understanding of them.
Before working at the IELP, the different worldviews and cultures and their importance was nothing of my concern. However, my position lead me to be a global citizen; someone who is passionate to learn about others’ experience and understand that there are many ways to live the life and that no one is better than the other. It made me go beyond the borders of geography and the borders of my mind and rid myself from preconception. I learned that it is all about challenging yourself to seek out others rather than waiting for them seek out you.
My plan of effecting change at the IELP:
Learner’s beliefs are “neither an ability nor a trait like propensity for language learning” as they are notably different from other individual variables (Ellis, 2008, p.698). Students come to language classes with preconceived assumption and beliefs about language learning that they may have derived from their prior language learning experiences. Some of the language classroom practices are based on assumptions, theories, and beliefs about language learning and teaching and which teachers develop and consider as an essential source to refer to when teaching. If teachers’ beliefs about language learning are unrealistic...
Learner’s beliefs are “neither an ability nor a trait like propensity for language learning” as they are notably different from other individual variables (Ellis, 2008, p.698). Students come to language classes with preconceived assumption and beliefs about language learning that they may have derived from their prior language learning experiences. Some of the language classroom practices are based on assumptions, theories, and beliefs about language learning and teaching and which teachers develop and consider as an essential source to refer to when teaching. If teachers’ beliefs about language learning are unrealistic...
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