Answer What It
Means To Be A Mentor
Faculty Mentor
A Faculty Mentor is an overseeing mentorship position. They work with a group of students and their learning community to continue moving forward in their learnings and meetings.
Life Mentor
The Life Mentor helps the student apply what they are learning beyond academic areas of their life, like issues of character. They do this through pulling from years of wisdom and experience.
Vocational Mentor
These mentors have many years of wisdom and experience. The vocational mentor will help them apply their learning to their current or future vocational role.
Journey of Discipleship
All of these mentor positions are an opportunity to continue on your own journey of discipleship, to become more like Jesus Christ.
SALT - Developing Leaders for Transformational Impact
We provide personalized, holistic, cost-effective, and competency-based theological education (CBTE) for those equipping for various ministries. Through a journey of mentorship, our graduates have acquired content, perfected craft, and cultivated godly character for Kingdom work.
Mentorship Position Opportunities
Faculty Mentor
This is the most fulfilling and impactful role in this “Journey of Discipleship.”
Qualifications:
- A Faculty Mentor must have either a doctorate or a masters degree relevant to the degree program of those being mentored.
Faculty Mentor Scope of Work
Below is a brief overview of what the Faculty Mentor continues to do with the student:
The Faculty Mentor meets with the student(s) to do the following:
- Working with 1-7 students.
- Regular meetings with students and learning communities.
- Participating as a lead mentor amongst the mentor team.
- The mentor is processing each of the learning experiences with them, along with practical implications of that knowledge and skill.
Vocational and Life Mentor
These mentors will have a lifelong impact on the lives of the students but at the same time their lives will be changed.
Qualifications:
- Each Vocational Mentor and Life Mentor is recruited by the student to be mentored. These mentors are not required to have advanced degrees, but should have many years of wisdom and experience.
Vocational and Life Mentor Scope of Work
Below is a brief overview of what the Vocational and Life Mentor continues to do with the student:
The Vocational and Life Mentor meets with the student(s) to do the following:
- These mentors will (usually) only work with only one student, though they could work with more than one in certain contexts.
- Their role is to meet regularly with the student one-on-one, every other week, for the duration of the courses (2-3 years).
- They process with the student the following: learning community experiences, and then their wisdom, background, and training.
- The Vocational Mentor will help them apply their learning to their current or future vocational role.
The Life Mentor helps the student apply what they are learning to the broader areas of personal life, especially character.
Here is how we made it
FOR YOU
Here is what is asked of you:
Mentoring relationships are absolutely critical to the “Journey of Discipleship”. We do this through the mentors by asking the following:
- Train students holistically in areas like content and character.
- Encourage application of learnings to the students head, heart, and hands.
- Meet them on average every two weeks.
The reason behind each student having (3) mentors:
Three mentors help provide development for the student in three critical areas of life: knowledge (content/head), spirituality, (character/heart), and skills (craft/hands). Each mentor focuses primarily (but not exclusively) on helping the student grow in their designated mentoring area.
Here is what to expect from the
STUDENT
What the student will be doing:
The student will be participating in a competency based education that will be focused on learnings with contextual application. They will be working on developing these competencies at their own pace, and schedule. Depending on which mentor you are is what expectations you will see from your students.
How you are involved with that:
By having our learning experience modeled this way, you will work with the student to set up their meeting schedule, while seeking to work with yourself and other mentors to create feasible relationship goals as they work to become competent in their courses. We will work with you as you become a mentor to better understand this process.
Mentor
Professional Development and Support
Collective Leadership
Between SALT and the accompanying university (kairos.edu), leadership is provided to guide you through the process.
On-going Meetings
Opportunities to meet with SALT leadership and other mentors is provided to do the "journey of discipleship" together.
Training
Onboarding and continual early stage training is provided to give you understanding of the program and its holisitc approach.
Materials & Documents
Videos and document materials are able to be accessed at any time.
Mentorship Standards
Mentoring relationships are a pivotal piece to CBTE and “Journey of Discipleship” as a part of SALT's makeup. Mentors are the ones who help train the students holistically in content, character, and crafts (head, heart, & hands). So, every mentor is expected to love and believe in the student.
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School Information
SALT CBTE Is an online university geared towards advancing the Great Commission. All courses are accredited through partnering programs.