10th Grade Personal Project

Mentor Information Packet

Student,
Congratulations on having chosen your topic and your mentor! Now it is time to start
creating your product. Before giving this packet to your mentor, please do the following:
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Make sure you go through your personal project info.

Write in any information that you have now.
Fill in your mentors name on the Mentor Meeting Record and any other papers
that needs their name.
Skim through this packet so you understand your mentors responsibilities.
Review the attached schedule and USE IT WHEN YOU ARE CREATING YOUR
PLAN FOR EACH OF YOUR MENTOR/STUDENT MEETINGS.
Be able to explain the process of the personal project to your mentor.

Remember, your mentor is providing you and the school with an important service.
He/she will help guide you, but will not be an expert on the personal project requirements.
You are responsible for knowing the requirements and meeting the deadlines.
1. Be conscientious of deadlines and expectations for each meeting.
2. Be polite, organized, committed, and enthusiastic.
3. Be prepared for each meeting. This includes:
Taking your personal project folder to all meetings.
Having a written plan for each meeting recorded on the mentor log sheet and
based on the attached schedule.
Making sure you get the log sheets initialed and dated at the end of each meeting.
Good luck and have fun!

Mentor of Personal Projects MYP Responsibilities

1. You must agree to be the mentor of the students personal project.
2. You do not have to be an expert in the area but must have some general
knowledge of the topic of the project.
3. Deadlines are not your responsibility. However, they will need to give you a copy
of their timeline (deadlines).
4. You are to encourage students to stay on task and be aware of their deadlines.
5. When you meet with the student the first time, they will go over what they wish to
do for their project and the timeline they have. If at that time, you see you cannot
mentor them, let them know then, so they may find another supervisor.
6. You will need to meet with them no less than a minimum of five times over the
course of their timeline.
7. Each time that you meet, the student should have an agenda written as to what
they want to discuss and give a copy to you at the start of the meeting. You are to
keep the agenda and make notes for yourself.
8. They will have a form that they will fill in at each meeting what was discussed in
the meeting and what are the areas that they will work on for the next meeting .
You will then sign this form. A meeting time will be set at that meeting in order for
the two of you to know when to meet next.

9. It is the students responsibility to remind you ahead of time for the next meeting
to make sure you both can still meet.
10. Keep the agendas and notes. You will be asked at the end of the timeline your
evaluation of the effort of the student and the timeliness in meeting with you
concerning the personal project.
11. The students will go over with you in the first meeting the Areas of Interaction and
the ones they chose. They will also explain to you the philosophy of MYP for your
background knowledge in order to supervise them.
12. You will need to sign the form as mentor.
MENTOR ACCEPTANCE FORM

I accept the responsibility to supervise the following MYP-IB

Student _________________________________________________________
on his/her personal project for the year of 20____/20____.

Print Name of Mentor

Signature of Mentor
Date _______________________________

Student will take this form to MYP IB English teacher to be kept in the Personal Project
folder.

THANK YOU,
Mr. J.Lamb-IB-Diploma Coordinator, M.H.S.