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What is Expected of Faculty Mentors
of Graduate Fellows
Specific Roles or Requirements
- Encourage your students to take
advantage of the K-12 opportunity for them to gain
communicational and organizational skills as they learn of
opportunities, needs, and difficulties of public education
and develop an avocation for contributing to K-12 math and
science education when they become professionals.
- Allow release time for your students
to attend:
1) Public school
2 days per week
2)
Weekly planning
meetings (Thursday evenings)
3)
One-week training session (and 2 week summer camp for 12 month
appointments)
4)
One one-day
retreat, occurring at the beginning of the spring semester
- Provide support and help answer
questions or direct your students to answer questions that
arise in public school in your subject of study.
- Attend a retreat at the beginning of
the spring semester where Fellows will present their experiences,
difficulties, and successes.
- Join the group of faculty that review
educational materials prepared by undergraduates and
graduate students requested by teachers on the Distance
Learning Community (http://peer.tamu.edu/DLC/NSF_Resources.asp).
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