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Minnesota High School High Tech E-Connect Classroom Mentoring Project

Minnesota High School High Tech E-Connect Classroom Mentoring Project. Mentoring Through Technology to Promote Student Achievement. What is E-Connect?. An innovative model for mentoring connecting students with disabilities to caring adults in the community.

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Minnesota High School High Tech E-Connect Classroom Mentoring Project

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  1. Minnesota High School High TechE-Connect Classroom Mentoring Project Mentoring Through Technology to Promote Student Achievement

  2. What is E-Connect? • An innovative model for mentoring connecting students with disabilities to caring adults in the community. • Communication between mentor and mentee is through email with occasional face-to-face meetings. • The goal of E-Connect is to help students better understand the workplace and gain skills for future employment.

  3. Implications of Disabilities • Understanding systems of the adult world • Academic growth and connection with peers • Social skills • Involvement in extra curricular activities • Independent living skills • Career development

  4. Emotional Impact of Labels and Disabilities • Challenges of social stigmas and stereotypes • Bias of adults (teachers, employers, etc.) • Young persons desire to lose labels vs. need to disclose disability • Civil rights

  5. Objectives for Youth • Connect to positive role models in the world of work • Build motivation for academic learning • Enhance self-esteem • Improve skills in writing, computers, social interaction, and career readiness • Integrate e-mentoring with achievement of transition/IEP goals • Provide expanded opportunities to help youth with disabilities become successful adults

  6. Objectives for Mentors/Employers • Increase awareness of youth with disabilities and their potential • Increase employee morale through rewards of mentoring • Improve business, community and school connections

  7. E-Mentoring Team • Mentee: a student who wishes to learn more about work and careers • E-Mentor: a volunteer who mentors a young people by using electronic communications • Community Coordinator: a liaison between school and community partners • Employer Coordinator: a liaison who coordinates activities and recruits mentors at employment site • Classroom Coordinator: a teacher or other staff who works with students on career development

  8. Expectation of the Mentor/Volunteers • Interest in supporting youth • Commitment for one semester or school year • 1 to 2 hours of training • 20 to 30 minutes weekly of online mentoring • 2 face-to-face meetings per semester • Willingness to adhere to goals and boundaries

  9. E-Connect Curriculum • Focuses on skills for future education and employment • Provides a weekly topic and framework for e-mail and classroom discussion • Allows dialog between mentor and mentee on a specific topic • Provides information, resources for mentor and mentee

  10. Resources • The Guideposts for Success www.ncwd-youth.info • NASET Transition toolkit www.nasetalliance.org • National Center on Secondary Education and Transition www.ncset.org • Institute on Community Integration www.ici.imn.edu

  11. For More Information • Joe Timmons timm0119@umn.edu (612) 624-5659 • Sharon Mule’ ssmule@umn.edu (612) 626-0335

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