User:Vtaylor/Mentoring

"Success comes through rapidly fixing our mistakes rather than getting things right the first time." ~ Tim Harford, author of Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure


 * FIRST Mentor Guide - 2011 - previous 2010

== Mentoring ==


 * self-motivation, perseverance, self-reliance, courage, dignity and love -- and, of course, lessons in service to others
 * What do you think? - build relationships, encourage meaning-making, inspire synergy, and press for accountability

outcomes
 * develop more effective interpersonal communication skills, learn how to effectively form and pose questions, seek advice, and practice active listening and concentration
 * engineering / design process, problem solving
 * specific skills, knowledge, competence
 * gracious professionalism - integrity
 * applied curriculum lessons

how - support autonomy, freedom, and development of mentees
 * ask good questions
 * engage in directed conversation
 * examples, analogies
 * help bridge gaps, fill in missing links
 * reinforce new learning
 * provide foundation
 * encourage development, exploration
 * personalized attention, 1-on-1, small group
 * encourage / recognize creativity, critical thinking
 * positive reinforcement, personal development
 * assessment, evaluation - self, peer, ?? rubric, external, pre-defined criteria
 * work habits - time management, communication

what - wikipedia
 * Accompanying: taking part in the learning process
 * Sowing: preparing, will make sense and have value when the situation requires it - personal values
 * Catalyzing: provoking a different way of thinking
 * Showing: demonstrating - role model, skills, communication, interpersonal relationships, work habits
 * Harvesting: "picking the ripe fruit", creating awareness of what was learned by experience and to draw conclusions. What have you learned? How useful is it?

== Learn more...==


 * personal development - Maslow hierarchy of needs with self actualization at the top … the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.


 * community empowerment - handbook


 * group work - online projects - preparation


 * tutoring - OLPC,