School-based mentoring: high school students mentor elementary students

• Published in: The Elementary STEM Journal 2018-09, Vol.23 (1), p.18-23
• Main Authors: Lecorchick, Douglas, III, Maynard, Julie, Morin, Megan, Nichols, Scott, Peterson, Bryanne, Ruesch, Emily Yoshikawa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Anxiety; At risk students; Classrooms; Cooney, Joan Ganz; Design engineering; Education; Elementary school students; Elementary schools; Engineering Education; Grade 4; Grade 5; High School Students; Individualized Instruction; Intervention; Learning; Mathematics; Mentoring; Mentors; Methods; Middle School Students; Middle School Teachers; Music education; Peer teaching; Peer-group tutoring of students; Role models; Secondary school students; Secondary schools; STEM education; Teaching
• ISSN: 2692-580X; 2692-5818

Based on this premise, high school mentorship, as a form of integrating STEM content into elementary classrooms, presents itself as a feasible solution, or at least a reasonable place to begin addressing some of the barriers at the elementary level. examples of successful mentoring in elementary school The Iowa High School Athletic Association (1996), under the direction of the Board of Control and Representative Council, requested information on the involvement of high school student leaders in mentoring programs from member schools. After receiving close to one hundred responses, elementary principals and teachers in the school districts were surveyed to compile a list of characteristics for high school mentors: (a) caring students who are responsible and have the desire to make a commitment; (b) good communication skills, including listening skills; (c) patience to work with students who may not grasp ideas quickly; (d) positive attitude, enthusiasm, and a willingness to share part of themselves with younger students; and (e) students who exhibit good citizenship and moral character, in and out of school. [...]mentoring is a successful scaffolding option for differentiation in the classroom. Douglas Lecorchick, III is a STEM Education enthusiast with a calling to facilitate collaboration among professional educators, He can be reached at dlecorc@ncsu,edu, Julie Maynard is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in STEM Education, with a specialization in Technology and Engineering Education, at The Ohio State University, She can be reached at maynard,238@osu,edu, Megan Morin is a Graduate Assistant for the Education and Workforce Programs at the FREEDM Systems Center and a PowerAmerica Institute and Technology, Engineering and Design Education Ph,D, student at North Carolina State University, She can be reached at mcpatber@ncsu,edu, Scott Nichols is the Technology and Engineering Education Supervisor at the Maryland State Department of Education in addition to managing K-12 Computer Science, He can be reached at charles,nichols@ marvland,gov, Bryanne Peterson, Ph.D. has a decade of classroom experience and now works with educators to improve STEM education and career development in their classrooms.