Resources for Interns (mentees)

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Mentee Role

• Establish and commit to a relationship with a mentor
• Take responsibility for your own growth and success
• Meet regularly with mentor
• Maintain confidentiality
• Ask for and give feedback
• Listen actively
• Ask your mentor for guidance and assistance whenever it is needed
• Present your needs and be open to exploring solutions

Resources for Interns/Mentees

• Goal-Setting
• Listening Skills

• How to Give and Receive Feedback

 

Common Learning Portal Resources

Online Trainings

*Disclaimer*
To participate in Common Learning Portal trainings, you must be a NPS employee with a PIV card. If you do not have a PIV card, you will need to be invited to the Common Learning Portal by your supervisor. Learn more.

1. For Mentors/Supervisors
   1. Intergenerational Sensitivity and Bystander Intervention Training
      1. https://mylearning.nps.gov/training-courses/now-on-line-intergenerational-sensitivity-and-bystander-intervention-training/ [4 hours]
   2. Telework Fundamentals For Managers
      1. https://mylearning.nps.gov/training-courses/telework-fundamentals-for-managers/ [2 hours]
2. For Mentees
   1. History of the National Parks Service
      1. https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/hisnps/NPSHistory/timeline_annotated.htm [Annotated Timeline, ~30 minutes]
   2. Introduction to the Career Academy for Natural Resources
      1. https://mylearning.nps.gov/training-courses/introduction-to-the-career-academy-for-natural-resources/ [2 hours]
   3. Intergenerational Sensitivity and Bystander Intervention Training
      1. https://mylearning.nps.gov/training-courses/now-on-line-intergenerational-sensitivity-and-bystander-intervention-training/ [4 hours]
   4. Natural Resource Decision Making in a Changing Environment
      1. https://mylearning.nps.gov/training-courses/natural-resource-decision-making-in-a-changing-environment/ [2 hours]
   5. Introduction to Implementing Science in National Parks
      1. https://mylearning.nps.gov/training-courses/introduction-to-implementing-science-in-national-parks-2/ [2 hours]
   6. Foundations of Interpretation
      1. https://mylearning.nps.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Foundations_of_Interp_2018_508.pdf [PDF, ~1 hour]
   7. Interpreting Climate Change
      1. https://mylearning.nps.gov/training-courses/interpreting-climate-change-virtual-course/ [*Virtual Course*, 15 hours as offered]
   8. Writing in the Sciences (Stanford University)
      1. https://mylearning.nps.gov/training-courses/stanford-science-writing/ [25 hours]
   9. Telework Fundamentals for Employees
      1. https://mylearning.nps.gov/training-courses/telework-fundamentals-for-employees/ [2 hours]
   10. Free and Easy Ways to Brush Up Your Interpretive Game
       1. https://mylearning.nps.gov/free-and-easy-ace/ [Educational page with resources, ~2 hours]
   11. NPS Fundamentals Essentials: Operations at the National Level
       1. https://mylearning.nps.gov/library-resources/nps-essentials-operations-national-level/ [Educational page with resources, ~2 hours]
   12. Off the Rails: Audience Driven Virtual Tours
       1. https://mylearning.nps.gov/library-resources/ace-socmed-rails/ [Educational page with resources, ~1 hour]
   13. National Park Service Programs
       1. https://www.nps.gov/policy/NPSPrograms_September2013_small.pdf [PDF book, ~3 hours]
   14. Coaching Your Peers
       1. https://mylearning.nps.gov/xapi-courses/coaching-your-peers/ [1 hour]

 

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