Exhibition Mentor Opportunity

Volunteer to Be a Mentor For Fifth Graders

In the final year of the IB Primary Years Programme, students participate in a culminating project known as the Exhibition. Students are required to engage in a collaborative, inquiry process that involves them in identifying, investigating and offering solutions to real-life issues. Through this inquiry, they will also manage their time, research, proactively work with mentors, take appropriate actions, communicate their findings, assess their tasks and CELEBRATE their learning.  Students share their learning during the day as a part of the fifth grade moving on celebration that we call the F.AVE Finale.

We need you to help us accomplish this by volunteering in a fifth grade class for a minimum of one day a week for 45 mins. or an hour over the next 5 weeks.

The mentor should:  

• Meet regularly with the appointed group of students.
• Offer advice on locating resources and using them efficiently.
• Ask questions.
• Help interpret sophisticated/difficult information.
• Facilitate interviews, telephone calls, any electronic communication.
• Provide goal setting and time management advice.
• Be supportive and encouraging.
• Celebrate achievements and successes with the students.
• Attend mentor training Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 5:30-6:15 pm or Wednesday, April 17th from 5:30-6:15 pm

The mentor should not:

• Do the work for students.
• Tell the students the direction to take, but instead ask probing questions to help facilitate their inquiry.

If you are a fifth grade parent and are interested in being a mentor, please RSVP for mentor training by emailing Karen Newton, IB Coordinator at knewton@csdecatur.net.