Practice Before Guiding: Micro Teaching Training to Strengthen the Psychological Readiness of Islamic Peer Mentors

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Psychological readiness is a key factor that determines how effectively university students perform their role as peer mentors. In practice, however, many students assigned as mentors receive little more than a brief administrative briefing, without adequate understanding of their psychosocial role, strategies for handling mentees with diverse characteristics, or basic teaching practice. Left unaddressed, this gap can lower the effectiveness of mentoring programs and trigger anxiety or low self-confidence among student mentors. Structured psychoeducation combined with guided teaching practice has been shown to strengthen prospective educators' confidence and basic teaching competence. This community service article describes a micro teaching training activity, facilitated by an educational psychologist with more than 10 years of professional practice, designed to strengthen the psychological readiness of Islamic peer-mentor students at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP), Universitas Mulawarman. The program was attended by 27 mentor students from six study programs, the largest proportion coming from Psychology (44.4%). Activities consisted of psychoeducation on the mentor's role, a guided micro teaching simulation, and structured reflection, evaluated through a pre-post cognitive knowledge test, observation of teaching quality, and written reflections. Participants showed high engagement throughout the sessions; however, the pre-post cognitive knowledge test showed no statistically significant improvement, t(26) = -0.427, p = .673, suggesting that the training's impact was more evident in the practical and affective dimensions of mentor readiness than in factual knowledge. The program offers a replicable model of mentor preparation for other study programs developing peer-based mentoring.

Kesiapan psikologis merupakan faktor penting yang menentukan efektivitas mahasiswa ketika menjalankan peran sebagai mentor bagi teman sebayanya. Namun pada praktiknya, banyak mahasiswa yang ditugaskan sebagai mentor hanya memperoleh pengarahan administratif singkat, tanpa dibekali pemahaman memadai tentang peran psikososial mentor, strategi menghadapi mentee dengan beragam karakteristik, maupun latihan mengajar dasar. Apabila tidak ditangani, kesenjangan ini berpotensi menurunkan efektivitas program mentoring serta memicu kecemasan atau rendahnya kepercayaan diri pada mahasiswa mentor. Psikoedukasi terstruktur yang dipadukan dengan praktik mengajar terbimbing terbukti mampu memperkuat kepercayaan diri dan kompetensi dasar mengajar calon pendidik. Artikel pengabdian ini mendeskripsikan kegiatan pelatihan micro teaching yang difasilitasi oleh seorang psikolog pendidikan dengan pengalaman praktik lebih dari 10 tahun, dirancang untuk memperkuat kesiapan psikologis mahasiswa mentor sebaya Islam di Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik (FISIP), Universitas Mulawarman. Kegiatan diikuti oleh 27 mahasiswa mentor dari enam program studi, dengan proporsi terbesar berasal dari Program Studi Psikologi (44,4%). Rangkaian kegiatan meliputi psikoedukasi tentang peran mentor, simulasi micro teaching terbimbing, serta refleksi terstruktur, yang dievaluasi melalui tes pengetahuan kognitif pre-post test, observasi kualitas micro teaching, dan refleksi tertulis peserta. Peserta menunjukkan keterlibatan yang tinggi sepanjang sesi; namun demikian, hasil pre-post test kognitif tidak menunjukkan peningkatan yang signifikan secara statistik, t(26) = -0,427, p = 0,673, yang mengindikasikan bahwa dampak pelatihan lebih tampak pada dimensi praktik dan afektif kesiapan mentor dibandingkan pada aspek pengetahuan faktual. Kegiatan ini menghasilkan model persiapan mentor yang dapat direplikasi oleh program studi lain dalam mengembangkan program mentoring berbasis sebaya.

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2026-10-29

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Practice Before Guiding: Micro Teaching Training to Strengthen the Psychological Readiness of Islamic Peer Mentors. (2026). Plakat : Jurnal Pelayanan Kepada Masyarakat, 8(2), 227-242. https://doi.org/10.30872/plakat.v8i2.29889