Comments - Final Two-Week Report!! - Tutor/Mentor Connection2024-03-29T09:12:38Zhttp://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=783429%3ABlogPost%3A11857&xn_auth=noHi Jordan. Thank you for inte…tag:tutormentorconnection.ning.com,2010-04-24:783429:Comment:118642010-04-24T14:17:59.000ZDaniel Bassillhttp://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/profile/tutormentor
Hi Jordan. Thank you for interning with us for the past few months and for sharing your journey on your blog. I hope you'll post your final paper when it is completed. I was at the University of Iowa this week for an education conference and I was near Purdue University a couple of weeks ago for a mentoring conference.<br />
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In both cases the participants are pointed to a complex problem where there are vast amounts of information to be understood, and where the actions of volunteers, donors,…
Hi Jordan. Thank you for interning with us for the past few months and for sharing your journey on your blog. I hope you'll post your final paper when it is completed. I was at the University of Iowa this week for an education conference and I was near Purdue University a couple of weeks ago for a mentoring conference.<br />
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In both cases the participants are pointed to a complex problem where there are vast amounts of information to be understood, and where the actions of volunteers, donors, leaders, etc. need to be distributed to many locations, and continue for many years.<br />
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How do we help people understand all of this information, and use it in ways that are appropriate to where they are, and what their needs are at any given time? How do we keep leaders from burning out, but keep them focused for many years.<br />
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This is a question that could be addressed by volunteers, interns, PhD students at each of these universities, and at Loyola, DePaul, and every Chicago university. Hopefully some faculty, alumni and students at these schools will read your blog articles, and those written by others on this site, and will see that this is an invitation for them to become involved.<br />
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If just one or two other people picks up from this, or if you keep writing, and someone a year from now responds because of your personal involvement, then we are taking meaningful steps to make change happen in many places of the world.