Connecting the Classroom to the Work Site
It is important to make the mentorship experience meaningful by connecting it to classroom learning. Connecting activities can take many forms, and should take place at all stages of the mentorship experience.
Pre-experience Activities
- Candidates and mentor prepare questions to ask one another about their school-based experiences.
- Candidates, administrators, and school-based mentors discuss professional standards for behavior and dress.
- School-based mentors emphasize practical applications for the concepts they teach in class.
- Other
On-site Activities
- Candidates and mentors ask one another about the ways in which different academic subjects relate to their content area.
- Candidates observe practical applications of academic concepts in other classrooms.
- Other
Post-experience Activities
- Candidates write about the differences between their expectations and the realities of their classroom.
- Supervisors and school-based mentors ask questions to help candidates recognize the difference between expectations for performance and the realities of their classroom.
- Candidates and school-based mentor discuss the connections they see between student learning, instruction, and classroom management.
- Other
