question

What problems do you want to solve when you grow up?
 * curiosity inquiry questions

[|How to help students ask better questions] - ask a bad question and follow it up by asking your students, “Why was this question awful?” Or when a student asks a great question, you can say, “Why was that a hard question to answer? Why did it make the class think deeper?”

[|Asking Questions and Defining Problems] - A practice of science is to ask and refine questions that lead to descriptions and explanations of how the natural and designed world works and which can be empirically tested. --NGSS
 * asking questions - picture - think you can answer, how to get answer, determine if this is the correct answer
 * defining problem

[|Question Formulation Technique (QFT)] - a straightforward, rigorous process that helps all students learn how to produce their own questions, improve their questions, and strategize on how to use their questions. In the process, they develop divergent, convergent and metacognitive thinking abilities.
 * [|qft intro article]
 * http://rightquestion.org/educators/online-tool-planning-qft/ - online planning tool
 * [|QFT] - teaching and learning objectives, your in-class activity, and the next steps students will take.
 * activity * Just one odd sock What can you do with an odd sock?

Activities
 * [|critical thinking activities] - 5 minutes or less

Mentoring
 * we gsofc - http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/notes-for-first-year-organizations/ ? how did we do?

"Success comes through rapidly fixing our mistakes rather than getting things right the first time." ~ Tim Harford, author of Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure


 * [|FIRST Mentor Guide - 2011] - previous [|2010]


 * self-motivation, perseverance, self-reliance, courage, dignity and love -- and, of course, lessons in service to others
 * What do you think? - build relationships, encourage meaning-making, inspire synergy, and press for accountability

outcomes
 * develop more effective interpersonal communication skills, learn how to effectively form and pose questions, seek advice, and practice active listening and concentration
 * engineering / design process, problem solving
 * specific skills, knowledge, competence
 * gracious professionalism - integrity
 * applied curriculum lessons

how - support autonomy, freedom, and development of mentees
 * ask good questions
 * engage in directed conversation
 * examples, analogies
 * help bridge gaps, fill in missing links
 * reinforce new learning
 * provide foundation
 * encourage development, exploration
 * personalized attention, 1-on-1, small group
 * encourage / recognize creativity, critical thinking
 * positive reinforcement, personal development
 * assessment, evaluation - self, peer, ?? rubric, external, pre-defined criteria
 * work habits - time management, communication

what - [|wikipedia]
 * Accompanying: taking part in the learning process
 * Sowing: preparing, will make sense and have value when the situation requires it - personal values
 * Catalyzing: provoking a different way of thinking
 * Showing: demonstrating - role model, skills, communication, interpersonal relationships, work habits
 * Harvesting: "picking the ripe fruit", creating awareness of what was learned by experience and to draw conclusions. What have you learned? How useful is it?

Learn more...
 * personal development - [|Maslow hierarchy of needs] with self actualization at the top … the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.
 * community empowerment - [|handbook]
 * group work - [| online projects - preparation]
 * tutoring - [| OLPC],