Final Assessment

a. Build confidence and competence to ask questions
b. Accept defeat
c. Avoid taking risks
d. Never pursue new ideas
a. At the start of the relationship
b. After the relationship has been established
c. When your mentoring is complete
d. When your mentee has issues or concerns
a. Driven by the mentor’s teaching needs
b. A trusting, safe relationship
c. Future-oriented
d. Centered on learning
a. Share your personal stories, success, and challenges
b. Value, learn from, and appreciate your mentee’s innovative ideas and creations
c. Use real-life challenges and situations as “teachable” moments
d. Check out your assumptions when in doubt about what is going on with your mentee
e. All of the above
a. Creating a clearly described connection to the learning by the instructor or mentor
b. Collaborating with the mentee’s classroom teacher to tie in learning standards and the general curriculum
c. Pointing out how many choices the mentee has during the process by identifying a personally-relevant problem to solve
d. All of the above
a. Provide input and feedback
b. Can be used as an excuse to fail
c. Lower the risk of making a mistake
d. Both a and c
a. 3
b. 5
c. 7
d. 9
a. Understanding, Remembering, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, Creating
b. Remembering, Understanding, Analyzing, Applying, Creating, Evaluating,
c. Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, Creating
d. Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Creating, Evaluating
a. Relate to participants’ real issues and concerns
b. Allow time for participants to integrate and reflect on information
c. Respect individual unique needs and cultural differences
d. Show flexibility and openness to new ideas
e. All of the above
a. Application, Recreation, Consequence, Significance
b. Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction
c. Assurance, Relevance, Consequence, Satisfaction
d. Approval, Recreation, Confidence, Self-reliance
a. Tony Wagner
b. Barbara Stripling
c. John Keller
d. Rosabeth Kantor
a. Show your frustration to garner results.
b. Find a way to communicate your message without showing your feelings.
c. Skip the session and move on.
d. Give your mentee the answers to continue more easily.
a. Groups of young innovators are taught together
b. Young innovators do not have adult mentors in school or at home
c. There is more than one school librarian at a school
d. The district hosts an annual invention convention
a. Tell your mentee what is required for the two of you to work well together
b. Provide lots of encouragement rather than constructive feedback so as not to dispirit the mentee
c. Talk about a time when you had to face a similar challenge or develop a similar project and what you did to handle it
d. Let your mentee know that you plan on giving them feedback when you are disappointed in their performance.
a. Help set the meeting agendas
b. Facilitate setting the goals and outcomes to be achieved by the group
c. Facilitate setting the goals and outcomes to be achieved by each group member
d. All of the above
a. When you listen, your mentee is more likely to listen to you.
b. You learn about your mentee's needs and concerns.
c. It diffuses potential conflict.
d. All of the above.
a. Take charge and tell your mentee what they should do.
b. Be fully present and give your undivided attention.
c. Show appreciation and demonstrate basic civility.
d. Fulfill your promises and commitments.
a. Keep track of what you say and do as a mentor
b. Record your impact on your mentee’s innovation process
c. Document what you are learning from the experience
d. All of the above
a. Staying on track with your mentee
b. Starting a closure conversation
c. Delivering effective feedback
d. Facilitating mentee learning
a. A highly focused conversation about the specific learning derived from the mentoring experience
b. A no-fault conversation focusing on both the process and the content of the learning
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a nor b
a. Counseling
b. Coaching
c. Teaching
d. Mentoring
a. Celebrate the achievement of goals
b. Look for meaningful ways to celebrate what you’ve accomplished
c. Include opportunities to express appreciation as part of the celebration
d. All of the above
a. Rigidity, autonomy, and collaboration
b. Flexibility, autonomy, and collaboration
c. Flexibility, control, and predictability
d. Rigidity, control, and collaboration
a. They set a good example.
b. Their values and behaviors align.
c. They keep a professional detachment.
d. Others want to emulate their behaviors and wisdom.
a. Ruth Small
b. Rosabeth Kanter
c. Susan Harter
d. Benjamin Bloom
a. Multiple means of engagement
b. Multiple means of representation
c. Multiple means of creation
d. Multiple means of action and expression
a. In person meetings
b. Skype calls
c. Email
d. All of the above
a. Mentoring Agreement
b. Letter to the student
c. Guidebook
d. Verbal contract
a. The mentee’s interests
b. The mentee’s innovation successes
c. The mentee’s challenges and failures
d. All of the above
a. Growth and development
b. Knowledge and thinking
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a nor b

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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.

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