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Industry Mentors
Industry Mentors
Industry mentors provide perspective and knowledge for students interested in their industry. The industry mentor helps provide next steps and career advice for the student to advance in their industry. Mentoring experiences can also be supplemented by industry-related assignments that allow the students to learn more about the industry.
These experiences can be done in-person or through a virtual platform. Many industry mentoring experiences culminate with a presentation experience at the conclusion of the mentoring time period.
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Industry Mentor Outcomes
Industry Mentor Outcomes
Provide students actionable feedback to improve project and/or presentation to meet competencies
Provide students the opportunity to gather feedback on industry aligned projects before final presentations to a judge or panel
Encourage students to utilize industry skills to further develop projects/assignments
Preparing to be an Industry Mentor
Preparing to be an Industry Mentor
If possible, share industry feedback with host teacher throughout the process
Gather industry resource suggestions that students might find helpful to complete their projects
Recruit additional co-workers for student(s) to learn from
Get to know your students first. Learn about the goals your mentee has and employability skills they would like to work on. Craft your mentor experience to address those needs.
Follow-Up after being an Industry Mentor
Follow-Up after being an Industry Mentor
Share industry specific resource materials that may help teacher/students with project completion
Host teacher will share any additional student questions/feedback with you
Debrief with your team and provide feedback to host teacher/program coordinator/point of contact
Debrief with host teacher/point of contact and arrange for other ways that the school and organization can work together to support student interest and learning along the WBL Continuum (Example: judge/panel member for final project presentations)
Examples of Industry Mentors
Examples of Industry Mentors
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Typically one-time experiences at school or through a huakaʻi or field trip to build student awareness of the wide range of career, college, and community options available to them
Exploration experiences go beyond brief exposure of awareness-building experiences by extending the experience through multiple interactions or more rigorous student participation
Preparation level experiences strengthen student content knowledge and skills through coursework linked to extended interaction with community and industry professionals
Training experiences are extended interactions that require the application of the learned technical, employability, and academic knowledge in real-world industry settings
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