Mentor Meeting 1

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Mentor Meeting 1

The first formal face-to-face coaching meeting in which the mentor will give advice on the Learning Goal and Product proposed by their mentee.

Meeting Agenda

Establishing a Learning Goal
Finding meaningful sources to use in an inquiry into that learning goal
Establishing a Product

If time:

Developing Success Criteria

Action Items Student

Prior to meeting: Negotiate meeting time with supervisor. (email template below)
Improve your success criteria and action plan based on your supervisor's feedback.
Big changes? Use these tips.
Record a summary of what was discussed in the meeting in the Academic Honesty Form section of your notebook.

Students are advised to complete these action items during the meeting.

Action Items Supervisor

Prior to meeting: If time,
- Browse through your mentee's PP Notebook sections marked with the following icons:
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- Browse through the initial research recorded in the 'research notes' section.
- Add comments to these sections as reminders for the meeting.

A good learning Goal in the Personal Project is:

Well-specified, leaving no room for ambiguity and defining a clear and realistic scope.
Self-motivated, intimately personal and/or driven by genuine engagement or curiosity.
Personally challenging, significantly extending prior knowledge or skills, creating completely new knowledge or skills and/or having an element of risk-taking.

Quality inquiry in the personal project is:

Self-directed, independently initiated and conducted.
Resourceful, making use of a variety of types of sources.
Analytical in nature, systematically examining a topic or issue, solving a problem, applying design thinking or deriving a conclusion or decision.
Experimental and/or experiential, using the scientific method, learning by doing or experiencing.

A meaningful product in the personal project:

Testifies to deep learning, preferably in direct response to the original learning goal,
Is a measure of the extent to which the learning goal was met.
Is original, providing a unique or imaginative perspective to the topic of learning.

Develop the email template below to reach out to your mentor and organize your first mentor meeting. Format your message nicely. Adjust where needed. Meet before trip week. Meet after you have established your learning goal and done some initial research into your research topic. Don't waste your mentor's time.

Dear Ms …,

Thank you for being my mentor in my personal project journey. I am looking forward to learning with you and am excited to develop my Personal Project into something of pride. So far, I have:

Explored my interests and options.
Chosen a learning goal based on my interests and feedback from people I value.
Done some initial research into the topic of my learning goal.

You can find my notes in my Personal Project Notebook: http://…

I am now thinking about an appropriate ‘product’ that allows me to demonstrate my learning in an interesting way. After that, I will start compiling an action plan for developing that product.

The Personal Project Coordinator has asked me to make sure I meet with my mentor before our Trip Week. The main goal would be to help me formally establish my learning goal and product. And hopefully, to get some advice on how to practically proceed with these.

I can meet after school on …
Or in my free blocks:
Or …

Would any of these work for you? Thank you for your time and support!

Kind regards,

…

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