Mentoring

==“If my students were travelers, then who was I as teacher? If education is most about the growth of the learner, what was my part? Our students are always in motion, I was coming to realize, and our task is to honor that motion, to understand how each student sees education and teachers differently at different times. The job, it seemed, was not so much to individualize instruction as to enrich education so each student could take from it what he or she most needed at the time… What is my place in the growth of those I care for?”==

[Quotes from: Daloz, L. A. (1999). //Mentor////: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners.// San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.]
Contemplate the following questions. Then post to Blackboard about your impressions by Sunday evening and respond to at least three of your classmates’ postings by Tuesday evening.


 * 1) Whether or not you see yourself as a teacher, what are the possibilities of your offering education through mentoring?
 * 2) If adult learning is seen as a transformative journey, how might a mentor serve as a guide?