Concurrent Sessions 3 - (Conference Attendance Credit: #1 hr)

126-01: Presenting Skills Evaluation of Graduate Students' Thesis Writing and Presentation Skills:  A Template to Document Development
Sandy Lookabaugh, Alan C. Taylor, Sharon M. Ballard

126-02: Grad2Grad Peer Mentoring Program: Theory, Process, and Evaluation
Ashlie Lester,  Danielle Turley

126-03: Successfully Using Zoom For Connecting With and Advising Graduate Students in a Fully Online Master's Program
Rachel L. Jumper

126-04: An Effective Instructor Preparation Program For Graduate Students Teaching Undergraduate HDFS Courses
Alan C. Taylor, Sharon M. Ballard, Sandy Lookabaugh

Paper Cancelled: 126-05: Developing Graduate Student Work/Life Balance: Former Students as Mentors
Patricia Hyjer Dyk

Moderator: Sharon M. Ballard
Chair: Allen C. Taylor

Summary
This symposium is designed to strengthen the field of family science. We have brought together five distinctive papers that will address innovative mentoring and teaching strategies for effectively training university graduate students. Each presenter will address a contemporary approach to a specific area of teaching or mentoring that has been found to be effective in training graduate students at their prospective university. In addition, presenters will address some of the future directions such approaches might need to take to adapt and change over the next several years as the field continually evolves and technologies provide cutting-edge resources. By providing innovative and contemporary approaches to graduate education, effectively trained and mentored graduate students will be equipped to step in as the future leaders within the field of family science.

Objectives
-- To identify the need for implementing and/or improving the mentoring and teaching practices within graduate education.
-- To describe effective mentoring/teaching strategies and approaches that have been shown to improve graduate education.
-- To discuss ways for faculty to develop or adapt these strategies into their existing graduate programs

Subject Codes: education, employment, technology
Population Codes: graduate students, educators, SNP
Method and Approach Codes: educational, mentoring, Family Science