Tutoring and Mentoring Questions Answered

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Tutoring and Mentoring 1. What did Geoffrey Canada experience and learn from Mike, his 14-yr.-old protector and mentor, that inspired Geoffrey's life choices? 2. What did Sean McComb’s experienc... es with his high school mentor and teacher, Brian Reagan, do for Sean? How did these experiences influence how Sean teaches high school students now? 3. Is there a friend or a mentor who helped you succeed through some part of school? Describe the methods for teaching and the character traits of the person that were helpful to your learning. 4. Analyze the attitudes and actions of your favorite instructor during K-12 classes. What do you recall that teacher or coach regularly doing to create enjoyment or excitement about learning? Vocabulary 5. Identify information from "Closing the Word Gap Between Rich and Poor" describing why poor kids need to learn lots of vocabulary before entering kindergarten. Bullet point four reasons why having a large vocabulary early in life is so important to young learners. 6. Would you have thought of vocabulary as key to school learning success? Why or why not? 7. What course(s) in college have introduced the most new vocabulary words for you to learn? 8. Of these four strategies, which ones do you use when you see or hear new words whose meaning or definition you may not know? a. use the text around the word(s) to understand the meaning b. use a paper or online dictionary to define the word(s) c. ask someone or ask Siri for the meaning d. ignore the word(s) Reading by 4th Grade 9. Educators cite grades 1-3 as being where students learn to read and grade 4 where students READ to LEARN. Information in the Executive Summary links high school graduation rates with lifetime economic opportunities. Summarize that information in bullet points. 10. Would you have predicted a book of poetry about basketball—communicating ideas and emotions and new vocabulary—would attract adolescent boys as readers? Would the book of poetry telling stories have attracted YOU as a reader? 11. Seeing a class of middle school students writing with Kwame Alexander, what surprised you about the writers and the class? 12. Did a bookmobile come to your neighborhood in the summer? If you were a kid without books and transportation living on a reservation, in a rural setting, in an inner-city neighborhood without a library, in foster care, or in prison, what might a bookmobile do for you? Adolescent Literacy 13. In high school, did you complete all assigned readings or did you utilize techniques from the video to disguise not doing the reading? Name techniques you used. [Show More]

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