Goal-Focused
Goals are benchmarks for measuring progress and learning. They encourage mentees to develop the capability, confidence and competence to explore, take risks, pursue their ideas, develop a willingness to fail (and learn from it) and then pursue new ideas.
Mentors and mentees identify learning goals collaboratively right from the start and review them throughout the mentoring relationship. Mutually-determined goals create focus, energy, and purpose.
One goal for a mentoring relationship between a school librarian and a young innovator might be:
Goal: Develop an idea for an invention and determine, through research, whether that idea had already been patented and commercialized.
What goal might you want to pursue with your mentee?
The Innovation Destination
The Innovation Destination was designed and evaluated by a team from the Center for Digital Literacy at the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University and developed by Data Momentum Inc, in partnership with the Connecticut Invention Convention, By Kids for Kids, New York On Tech, and over 70 school librarians and young innovators.
This site has been serving the youth invention community from 2015 - present.
