Final Assessment

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. Value the learning challenge
b. Believe or expect that he or she can be successful at achieving a challenge
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a nor b
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. Focuses on career issues and providing emotional support
b. Focuses on boosting performance
c. Focuses on development intangibles
d. None of the above
a. Irregular communication
b. Lack of progress and accountability
c. Unrealistic expectations
d. Failure to evaluate the relationship and act on feedback
a. When they are completely off track or rambling.
b. When they are interrupting someone else.
c. When they are dominating.
d. All of the above.
a. Having a warm and friendly expression
b. Establishing certain times in your schedule that you’re available
c. Expressing enthusiasm
d. Asking questions without judgement or threats
a. Unreasonable amount of work assigned
b. Failure to build and work at strengthening a relationship
c. Unclear goals
d. Lack of or poor use of time
a. Why they want to be mentored
b. What they need to learn
c. What you can do to help them
d. All of the above
a. Driven by the mentor’s teaching needs
b. A trusting, safe relationship
c. Future-oriented
d. Centered on learning
a. Learning, trust-based, partnership, goal-focused, and development
b. Trust-based, individuality, goal-focused, and development
c. Partnership, project-focused, development, and learning
d. Trust-based, individuality, project-focused, learning and development
a. Mentors and mentees identify learning goals individually right from the start and review them throughout the mentoring relationship.
b. Mentors and mentees identify learning goals collaboratively right from the start and review them throughout the mentoring relationship.
c. Mentors and mentees identify learning goals collaboratively right from the start and review them at the end of the mentoring relationship.
d. Mentors and mentees identify learning goals individually right from the start and review them at the end of the mentoring relationship.
a. A greater emphasis on the importance of the school librarian within the school community
b. Other teachers are educated about the activities/lessons/resources that are available, leading to a more teacher/librarian collaboration
c. A substantial increase in the financial support of the school library
d. The role of the library is redefined, allowing the library to break away from its traditionally viewed services
a. Mentoring Agreement
b. Letter to the student
c. Guidebook
d. Verbal contract
a. Hard work
b. Innovation
c. External awards or rewards
d. Presentation skills
a. Mentoring takes place only one-on-one
b. Mentoring is an organic relationship
c. Mentoring develops many soft skills
d. Mentoring focuses on development intangibles, such as confidence and presence
a. They prefer to work alone.
b. They prefer to work in a group of 3-5.
c. The responses were mixed.
d. They preferred to work with only one other person.
a. Lack of skilled, committed mentors
b. Excessive time spent with the same person
c. Lack of trust
d. Untested assumptions
a. Martins and Terblanche
b. Tony Wagner
c. Lois Zachary
d. A group of mentor-librarians
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. Parent-directed
b. Facilitated
c. Self-directed
d. All of the above
a. All members get to know each other.
b. You and they set the ground rules.
c. Trust is established across all team members and with you.
d. All of the above
a. Ground rules
b. Being prepared
c. Committing to check-ins
d. Laying an educational foundation
a. At the beginning of your relationship.
b. In the middle of your relationship.
c. At the end of your relationship.
d. Throughout your relationship.
a. Multiple means of engagement
b. Multiple means of representation
c. Multiple means of creation
d. Multiple means of action and expression
a. Confidence
b. Attention
c. Satisfaction
d. Relevance
a. Teacher
b. Mentor
c. Boss
d. Guide
a. Everyone has a voice in the process.
b. Determining immediately who has the best ideas.
c. Identify the resources they might use ahead of time.
d. Determining if an idea costs too much as soon as it is suggested.
a. 3
b. 5
c. 7
d. 9
a. Listen for facts and feelings
b. Be aware of your own emotional response
c. Listen for what is really meant versus what is said
d. Let others interrupt.

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