Telementor Guide
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What guidelines should I follow in crafting advice? Below are some useful guidelines for crafting your advice for your mentees. It is important for all telementors to remember that the best-sounding and most well-intended advice is not good advice in the end if it cannot be, or is not taken. Effective mentors don’t simply think about what they would do in a given situation and tell others that they must do the same — they present options and help their mentees to understand the potential merits and costs of those options. A vital part of the craft of telementoring is measuring up which possible advice is most likely to have real and evident value to particular mentees in a particular situation, and at a particular time. While it is not easy to boil down the performance of good mentors into rules, the best telementors we have observed over the years take at least five factors into account when deciding what advice to offer their mentees about an ongoing investigation: The pedagogical point; What mentees already know; The time available for mentees; Mentees’ motivation; Mentees’ access to necessary learning resources (books, journals, the Internet, etc.)
How much help is too much?
How do I find out what my mentees already know?
How does time pressure influence how my advice is taken?
What should I know about my mentees' motivations?
How should students' access to resources shape my advice?
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