[CASL-L] Capstone Community Mentor Question

[Goraieb, Juliet]

Hi Tenley:

We have this issue regularly.  I am the Team Leader for the Capstone at
East Haven High School.  I also teach several classes each year (as it's
currently a half year course).  We have had adults not follow through and
personality conflicts, etc.

I think we try to minimize this required component as much as possible.
The role of the mentor can be simply giving feedback or providing
information instead of being a more focal part of the project.  Some
students use family members or family friends as mentors.  Some students
ask teachers to help them (I have a student planning a field day now with
an elementary PE teacher).  We also allow students to communicate via
telephone, Skype, and email.  This allows some flexibility for students who
do not have transportation.

I hope that helps!

Juliet

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 2:07 PM tenley stoltz <
tenley.stoltz at somers.k12.ct.us> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have some questions for those of you with a community
> mentor/service piece to your Capstone.
>
> - What happens if a student is unable to get to their mentor/ community
> service time due to parents being unavailable?  We are anticipating that
> due to work schedules or other issues there might be students who have
> difficulty making it to their location after school hours.
>
> - Have you ever had a mentor back out during the Capstone Experience or
> just had one that was not helpful, didn't fill out the paperwork, etc...?
>
> I know that there are going to be students that don't want to do the work
> for whatever reason, and we can work the resources available at school to
> help get them through that.  We are trying to work on possible solutions
> for the students that are willing to complete the project, but don't have
> the needed support from the adults attached to it outside of school. Any
> suggestions or ideas to work around this would be much appreciated.
>
> If there are any other roadblocks that you've had that I haven't thought
> of yet, I'd love to hear them, too!
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Tenley
> --
> Tenley Stoltz
> Library Media Specialist
> Somers High School
>
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Juliet Goraieb
Library Media Specialist
East Haven High School
https://sites.google.com/a/east-haven.k12.ct.us/ehhs-lmc/
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