Mentors

Mentors encourage and actively support the well-being and learning of students throughout the process of the Exhibition.

Mentor role and responsibilities:

Essential responsibilities:

• Allow your mentee to have voice, choice and ownership throughout the Exhibition process.

• Emphasise with your mentee that the focus is the process rather than the product.

• Be supportive, encouraging, and provide feedback to your mentee throughout the process.

• Help guide and monitor your mentee in their setting/accomplishment of specific tasks/weekly goals.

• Be available to meet with your mentee once per week . The need for these meetings may change further into the Exhibition process depending on the needs of your mentee. These meetings can be face to face or on Zoom.

Weekly support focus topics may include (to be communicated weekly by the Y6 team):

• Suggest primary sources, help interpret difficult information, guide your mentee to facilitate interviews or Zoom/telephone calls/emails.

• Support mentee with developing their organisational skills, in particular, organising and filing relevant documentation, as needed.

• Be responsible for some aspects of ongoing assessments – provide opportunities for your mentee to reflect on their knowledge, understanding, approaches to learning (skills) and attributes of the learner profile in their Exhibition journal.

• Document meetings with your mentee - questions, reflections, actions throughout the process using the template provided.

• Communicate mentee successes and/or concerns to Year 6 teachers in a timely manner so they can follow