Please select those areas where you witnessed significant improvement for your participating students.
| Yes |
No |
Area of Potential Impact |
| 1 |
0 |
Improved math comprehension and ability |
| 1 |
0 |
Increased registration for advanced math courses |
| 1 |
0 |
Improved science comprehension and ability |
| 1 |
0 |
Increased registration for advanced science courses |
| 1 |
0 |
Improved Communication skills (Written or Oral) |
| 1 |
0 |
Improved subject grades |
| 1 |
0 |
Improved standardized test scores |
| 1 |
0 |
Improved critical thinking skills |
| 1 |
0 |
Improved teamwork |
| 1 |
0 |
Improved school attendence |
| 1 |
0 |
Increase in self-directed learning |
| 1 |
0 |
Increase integration of knowledge across subject areas and interest areas |
| 1 |
0 |
Increase in knowledge of the workplace |
| 1 |
0 |
Increased desire to become a proactive learner |
| 1 |
0 |
Increased desire to go to college |
| 0 |
1 |
Other areas |
Please describe additional areas that may have been impacted by this program.
Please indicate the percentage of your students who are actively moving in the direction of becoming proactive learners.
100%
I have a better understanding of the importance of doing well in math.
I gave them everything they need to do the first week of school. They had to manage their time to finish everything and have a working prototype by May.
How many students would you prefer to directly supervise in the program next year?
21
Please provide some tips on how we can partner with you to expand the program in your area.
Sometimes we need mentor help that the student's mentor doesn't have expertise. Having other mentors that students could ask questions would be very helpful on engineering projects.
How would you rate the quality of the matches between your students and mentors overall on a scale of 1 - 5?
4
Please describe any changes you'd like to see that might further improve the quality of the matches.
Same as # 3
Describe a few things you and your students and mentors were able to accomplish through this program that would have been difficult or impossible any other way.
The EDD class requires that the student has a mentor. The first year we had to write people and ask if they would mentor. It didn't work! This was perfect.
How would you rate the quality of the help you received from the International Telementor Center staff throughout this project on a scale of 1 - 5?
5
How often were you able to communicate with the mentor group as a whole?
Weekly
How often were your students able to communicate, on average, with the mentors?
Weekly
Describe significant changes that you would like to see in the program or school environment that would improve the effectiveness of the program for you and your students. Please note who would be responsible for making those changes.
I like it the way it is.
How has this program assisted you to use technology more effectively?
We use a lot of technology now. This is another tool that makes learning better for students.
Please note the impact this program has had on meeting state or national standards on a scale of 1 - 5. Where 1 is none and 5 is signifigant
4
Please describe this impact, if any, in your own words.
If "students at-risk" are defined as those who have low motivation to learn, what percentage of the students you supervised this year met this criterion.
50%
When you applied to be a teacher contact you were asked to meet the following requirements.
- All student/mentor commmunication is project based
- Participating students receive a subject grade and turn in work at least biweekly
- Teachers should communicate at least biweekly with the mentors
- Students should be self-selected for participation.
- Teachers should expect a high degree of accountability from their students.
- Teachers should respond to specific program problems within 48 hours
How many requirements you were able to meet this year.
5
Please describe which requirements, if any, helped you be successful in the program?
I wrote the mentors every week to keep them informed what to expect from the students the following week. Also, the feedback helped the students refine their CAD drawings.
Please describe which requirements, if any, were difficult to meet. Please note why these requirements were difficult to meet.
The biggest problem was getting all the students to write 2 times a week. Getting reminders from Kim was helpful to me to remind students who were falling behind.
If you were helping a new teacher start in this program, what advice would you offer that would aid this new teacher and his or her students to be successful participants?
Know your curriculum and have your whole year paced out. That makes it easier to write the project for Telementor.
Do you plan to participate in the program next year?
Yes
Please estimate how many students in your school district or city could take advantage of this program next year?
300
What additional training would you recommend for teachers next year?
How to take our curriculum and transfer it to Telementor. Also, explain how to write student tasks and mentor tasks that make the grade dependent of the mentor input.
