On June 29, 2009 members of the LTI family made preparations for HSSP (a condensed version of the spring curriculum for middle school students for the summer). As usual, the meeting consisted of icebreakers, a major activity, and a discussion in the end on how to be a good leader.
The overall focus for this meeting was to highlight the qualities of a good mentor. In our icebreaker, the group split into teams of two. Each team then made an outline a one of their team-members body on the chalkboard. Then everyone drew physical feature to symbolize qualities for a good leader. So for example, one group drew a big head to represent open-mindedness in a good leader.
In addition to showing what skills a good mentor should have, the mentors were put to the test in "extreme mentor." In this activity, each mentor pretended to give a lesson while the rest of the LTI staff pretended to be disruptive students. While this was an extreme case scenario, I felt that this was a very informative. This activity showed each mentor how important it was to get everyone involved, what resources they had available to them, and how important it was to never give up.
After Extreme mentor, we had a discussion to further illustrate how important being a good mentor was. I felt that the discussion was very useful in that it showed how the skill that we highlighted in the icebreaker and the lessons that we learned in extreme mentor were all necessary to becoming not only good leaders, but mentors that can really make a difference.
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