Mentored Learning

Study Skills

To help the student to manage time, learn from lectures, complete an essay assignment, do research or revision, these study skills necessary for quality education will be included for the mentored student — in order to equal the guidance given in the lecture rooms of Bible Schools.

• To be University ready
• Identifying your best skills
• Learning and Intelligence
• Strategy for learning
• Group work
• How to research
• College writing
• Developing writing skills
• Improving thinking skills
• Training your memory
• Revise and learn for tests

Grammar Tuition

The Bible School student is exposed to many lectures and then also from different speakers (lecturers) whoose use of correct grammar will, to a great extent, teach them to speak standard English and become better writers. The mentored student will not have the same grammar building experience. In order to adjust for this lack of interaction with different lecturers in a class situation, the mentored student will do grammar training in a more direct way through a text book. Some of the topics to be dealt with are the following:

• Sentences, sentence fragments, and sentence types
• Nouns and pronouns
• Subject, verb and agreement
• Adjectives and adverbs
• Simple and compound sentences
• Contractions
• Special usage problems

Vocabulary Building

College students benefit greatly from increased word power. This is best accomplished through repeated exposure to a word. An understanding of word parts is also helpful. The following will form part of building a college vocabulary:

• Increased reading
• Word Parts as clues to meaning
• Memory aids and mental pictures
• Creating word families
• Understanding a Dictionary and Thessaurus
• Employing new words in writing

Communication Training

To build effective interpersonal relationships it is imperative to become other-orientated and know how to relate verbally and non-verbally to other in interparsonal situations. Students need to consider the thoughts, feelings and values of others rather than to exclusively focus on themselves. We will deal with:

• Communication, Self and Perception
• Cultural diversity
• Listening and responding
• Verbal communication
• Non-verbal communication
• Conflict management
• Understanding relationships
• Developing and managing relationships
• Relationships at home, on the Internet and at work

Extra Academic Reading

The student may find extra reading material in various places. Educators feel that reading is the foundation of learning. This learning can make up for the absence of live lectures to some extent. It is therefore important that the tutor will oversee a recording of extra reading the studnet has managed with each module. The cources may be:

• Books from the library, own books or from Mentor's collection
• Magazines, newspapers, subscribed letters
• CD-ROM based e-books
• Internet Web-pages (also available as down-loaded material
• e-Sword and other similar software: Commentaries etc.
• Textbook collections or library sets (when available from CLT)

Character Building Sessions through Personal Counselling

The mentor will have personal contact with the student for intentional personal and Christian growth and development. Several counselling or discussion sessions are proposed during which a braod range of topics may be discussed such as:

Knowing God's will, Self-image, Self-control, Handling stress, Handling money, Compassion, Servanthood, Honesty, Dependability, Tenacity, Stewardship, Witness, Prayer, Obedience, Spirit-filled.

Through this personal contact, areas of need can be identified. The student may through assessment, gain clarity with respect to God's call, and establish identity in ministry in a position such as worker, leader and perhaps later as pastor. The session will build personal character and contribute to personal and spiritual maturity and/or develop ministry skills.

The mentor will help the student to be able to:

• Be well-organised and able to self-manage under various circumstances
• Understand the things he/she is confident about in many areas of their life
• Improve clarity about life's questions through Biblical answers.

Students should gradually be able to answer the world's questions in a Biblical way; questions such as:

1. I want to change but I don't know how
2. I can't get out of the frame enough to see the whole picture
3. I never seem to have enough time
4. I'd benefit from a clear personal development plan
5. I keep repeating too many of the same mistakes
6. I keep chasing my own tail
7. I'd like to be more relaxed about what goes on around me
8. I need to take stock of my direction and progress
9. I'd like to be more self-directed
10. I want to be seen for who I truly am
11. I need greater self-awareness
12. I want to realise more of my personal potential
13. I seem to be rudderless, without clear direction or purpose
14. I have difficulty defining my purpose, goals or priorities
15. I find it hard to focus on my priorities
16. I want simplicity but I get complexity
17. I'm doing life at top speed with no directing light
18. I push myself too hard
19. I don't get sufficient return on my efforts
20. I am getting that burned-out feeling
21. My self-esteem is too low: I find it difficult to value myself (as God sees me)
22. I spend too much time down in the engine-room, not enough time up on deck to see where I'm going
23. I can see where I'm going and I need help to alter course
24. My work to personal life balance is out of tune
25. I'm confused about too many things
26. I am very often anxious or have a guilty feeling
27. I'm so stressed that I'm concerned about my health
28. My job is going nowhere and seems without purpose
29. I'm not sure I know where my life is going
30. Too often I compromise my own values and ideals
31. I'm struggling to cope with new responsibilities
32. I'd like greater alignment between my inner-world experience and my other-world experience