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Registered Apprenticeship Mentoring Resources
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Mentors play an essential role in apprenticeship, helping apprentices learn skills and understand the workplace culture by educating, demonstrating, equipping, listening, and encouraging. The resources on this page can help you set up mentors, mentees, and employer sponsors for success.
*Please note that the Office of Apprenticeship has not reviewed and does not endorse the peer resources provided below but is sharing them for grantees’ convenience.
General Mentoring Resources
- Apprenticeship Building America Mentoring Guide
- Mentoring for Apprenticeship: Train the Trainer for On-the-Job Training (OJT) (Keystone Development Partnership)
- Mentor train-the-trainer guide (Harper College)
- Mentoring Works: Retaining Apprentices through Effective On-the-Job Learning webinar (U.S. Department of Labor [DOL])
- Anti-harassment training and resources for mentors and apprentices (DOL)
- Workplace Mentoring online course and handbook (Nova Scotia Apprenticeship Agency)
State Expansion Grantee Peer Mentoring Resources
- Maine’s Mentoring 101 training video for mentors
- Minnesota’s Mentorship and Registered Apprenticeship fact sheet
- South Carolina’s online mentor training for mentors and apprentices
- South Dakota’s online mentoring modules for mentees, mentors, businesses, and facilitators; and Mentorship Lesson Training Resource Hub with tools to help businesses develop their mentorship programs and deliver or customize the mentor training
Industry-Specific Mentoring Resources
- H-CAP (Healthcare Career Advancement Program) Mentorship Training Program, including a facilitator’s guide and curriculum
- South Carolina’s online training for mentors in the healthcare field
- Effective Mentoring in Apprenticeship webinar (DOL, featuring H-CAP and Rise Long Term Care)
- South Carolina’s online training for mentors in the manufacturing field
- Aerospace Joint Apprenticeship Committee’s OJT Master Mentor job description
- Communication and Mentoring in the Trades
- National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers’ Registered Teacher Apprenticeship design principles for structured on-the-job learning/mentorship (pages 2–3)
- Mentor frequently asked questions (FAQs) for the Wyoming Teacher Registered Apprenticeship Program
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- Resource Publication Date: 2023
- Posted by: Katie Mehle
- Posted in: State Apprenticeship Grants