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Find the right mentor

Find the right mentor

From the course: Teaching Future-Ready Students

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Find the right mentor

- Let's talk about how establishing a mentorship program can help students move forward more effectively with their project. One day early in the school year one of my student groups came up to my desk and said, "Mr. Brookhouser, we want to build a foundry "for our 20-Time project." I couldn't really remember what a foundry was, but I knew it had something to do with melting metal. That sounds dangerous and fun. "What do you know about building a foundry," I asked. Nothing. So I said, "Same here, "let's get help from somebody who does." Thus the mentor program was born. Many of my students were taking on projects about which I had very little or no expertise and I knew their work would be more successful with expert adult guidance. The problem was I didn't know how to implement a mentor program. The first year I decided that each student would write a formal letter of introduction asking for support from an adult they and their parents trusted. Getting parents involved was a good…

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