When getting to know your mentee it is useful to encourage and raise aspirations. Mentees may often express they are not clever and are not capable to completing assessments to a high standard or even reach Higher Education. Each person will have a preferred learning style or approach to a situation. Multiple Intelligences will allow mentees to see their own preferences and recognise their own intelligence
Understanding your mentees learning style can encourage you and your mentees to establish a good mentoring relationship with resources presented in a preferred style. The activity details are below:
AIMED AT: Y9 - Y12
MATERIAL COVERED:
From worksheet D onwards their are practical tasks and explanations for Multiple Intelligences
WHEN TO USE:
At the start of the year when you are getting to know each other and setting goals for the mentoring relationship