Please indicate the student skill areas that you feel you influenced through this project.
1 - Improved math comprehension and ability
2 - Improved science comprehension and ability
8 - Improved written communication skills
8 - Improved basic research skills
11 - Improved project management skills
10 - Improved collaboration skills
Please indicate if your mentoring support aided your student in the following areas.
5 - Better understanding of a professional work environment
2 - Improved awareness of post-secondary educational opportunities
2 - Increased desire to research and plan for post-secondary education
6 - Improved awareness of the value of a professional support network
The average quality of the messages received from students throughout the project.
3.45
Did your student share a final product (presentation, research report, plan, etc) with you for this project?
0 - N/A
7 - Yes
4 - No
Average level and quality of assistance received from the teacher throughout the project.
4.27
Average level and quality of assistance you received from Mentored Pathways staff throughout the project.
3.64
Things either the teacher or the Mentored Pathways Staff do to make a similar project more successful.
I felt we ran out of time toward the end. I didn't get a chance to help Riley with her presentation until after she actually presented it. I also didn't get to hear much about how the presentation went, since our time was over.
I truly appreciated messaging from teachers about students who may or may not have special issues related to the project including articulation of language, writing, collaboration, etc.. It helps me understand where the student(s) are coming from.
Thank you for posting the Continue the Vision powerpoint. Helped with closure.
Ms. Ibanez's messages are always of a high quality, very helpful and informative about project status and challenges/requests. She is another one of the top teachers in the project who really contribute to making collaboration successful and pleasurable. I thoroughly enjoy working with her. The ITP staff is always helpful and supportive. One quick suggestion - I replied to an email that said that if I needed help with mentoring I should email. I did so to indicate that I needed a backup mentor that week and unfortunately due to some crossed wires I think - I didn't get any backup for my student until about 7 days had gone by. I think the issue is resolved now and backup mentoring is happening more efficiently, so not really a complaint at all, just a note that it happened.
Feedback regarding the quality of the student's final project as well as suggestions for improvement.
I have not seen the students final project.
I would have liked to see the final project!
It looked very good from what I could tell.
I think much of the student's final project was not amenable to sharing via powerpoint or written document.
Although I could not see the project, the summary report provided was exceptions.
I did not meet my objectives for this student. Milan stopped communicating with me about mid-way through the project. I raised this once with the teacher and once directly with the student, but I did not see any improvement. I continued to send emails with questions, comments, suggestions, but through the course of the program I spent less time with them than I should have. I don't actually know if the student completed his project. He did not share any final products with me.
This time while I did receive feedback from the students, I didn't get enough feel for the final project. In a project like this (computer game), next time I think I'll ensure I ask for screenshots or something similar.
I didn't see the final project before it was presented, but I thought the student had a great idea and seemed to complete it successfully. When I did get to see it, I thought it was good, but if I had seen it before he presented it, I could have given him some feedback to make it even better.
As with the prior project, I didn't receive any final presentation in time to review it and offer input, or in fact at all. I understand that things get backed up at the end of projects and students may be running behind, but I really feel strongly that an interim deadline by which presentations MUST be to mentors would help. As it stands now, there is a sort of general recommendation from the teachers that students send presentations to mentors if possible etc. I think it needs to be a much firmer deadline requirement to get students to see it as a mandatory part of the project that they share final work with mentors in time that they can provide input/feedback.
Overall experience in the program.
3.91
Would you consider mentoring new students in the future?
0 - No
11 - Yes
Why or why not.
I think this is a great program that provides the student's professional aid while providing the mentors a rewarding project.
I'm already signed up for a next project, and I've been telling all my coworkers and friends they should check it out too!
Due to job related barriers, I will not be able to participate for the next year. I would like to continue in the future.
I will definitely be back. I do think that I need to judge my participation ability better and not short-change the students because of unexpected issues that crop up.
I think you probably have my answer on this now! I really enjoy it and get a lot out of helping the students. It helps me grow as a person just as much as I hope I help the students. Each experience is different as each student is different and I enjoy the challenge of that.
The most rewarding aspect of participating.
Knowing that I was helping someone expand their working knowledge and professionalism.
Seeing Riley learn and grow as she worked on her project. She really seemed appreciative of my suggestions and incorporated those as she worked.
Seeing the growth in my student's writing and basic research knowledge.
The program has human value and the students are inspiring in the creativity and effort they display.
I am very committed to tutoring and mentoring and have been since being in high school myself - so it was great to be able to work with another student passionate about peer tutoring and to provide guidance and personal experience about setting up such a program.
The most difficult aspect of participating.
Communicating over the telementor portal.
It's a little difficult to be such a "bystander" and not really see any other aspect of the project except what I heard from Riley. I would have loved to hear feedback from others on how the project turned out.
I wish there was more band-width for larger projects to be uploaded to the site. It was difficult providing feedback since my student could not upload their project for review.
Coordinating unexpected trips. The team was very helpful about ensuring my delayed participation did not derail anything.
This student was not particularly responsive to my messages. They sent messages regularly but they very rarely responded to the questions or suggestions I made in the messages, so it was hard to tell whether I was really helping. The student got quite behind with things like interview questions so in the end we could not contact any peer mentoring experts and I think that would have been valuable to compare with teachers' inputs. This student was very committed to their project and got it up and running very successfully but I'm not sure they thought about it as deeply as they could have done if they had challenged themselves to answer some of my questions.
First time you've been part of a formal mentoring program.
10 - No
1 - Yes
