Prompt: Read the list of 30 quotes.
1. Do any standout to you?
“Mentoring is not about making people like you, but about helping them become the best version of themselves.” ~David Stoddard
2. Do any remind you of your mentor?
“Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.” ~John Crosby
3. Do you see yourself in one of these quotes?
“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your image but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” ~ Steven Spielberg
Evidence of Learning
Prompt: From the website provided or a resource you found, in one paragraph, explain how you connect with one or two quotes.
Reflection: Barack and Michelle Obama were strong advocates for mentoring disadvantaged and minority youths. Although their efforts reflect a need to bridge gaps, their overall message reflects the need for mentoring across personal and professional aspects of life. On January 25, 2011, First Lady Michelle Obama closed her remarks at the National Mentoring Summit sharing a lesson that each person deserves to have three types of friends: a friend to follow, a friend to walk alongside, and a friend to reach back for. It is this last friend, the one to reach back for, that Mrs. Obama identifies as being a mentor. To her, mentoring is vital because it is the opportunity “to lend our experience and our wisdom in the hopes that it will give someone after us the strength to reach a little higher and dream a little bigger.” This quote stands out to me because regardless of the circumstances, mentoring is important in our society for leaving the world a little better than the way we inherited it. It is my hope as a mentor to share the work (past and present) of myself and my colleagues while also finding a way to challenge a mentee to continue if not improve upon the work being done. Mentoring shouldn’t mean settling for the “status quo.” Rather, the act of mentoring should encourage the desire to achieve more than those that came before.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/25/remarks-first-lady-national-mentoring-summit
1. Do any standout to you?
“Mentoring is not about making people like you, but about helping them become the best version of themselves.” ~David Stoddard
2. Do any remind you of your mentor?
“Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.” ~John Crosby
3. Do you see yourself in one of these quotes?
“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your image but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” ~ Steven Spielberg
Evidence of Learning
Prompt: From the website provided or a resource you found, in one paragraph, explain how you connect with one or two quotes.
Reflection: Barack and Michelle Obama were strong advocates for mentoring disadvantaged and minority youths. Although their efforts reflect a need to bridge gaps, their overall message reflects the need for mentoring across personal and professional aspects of life. On January 25, 2011, First Lady Michelle Obama closed her remarks at the National Mentoring Summit sharing a lesson that each person deserves to have three types of friends: a friend to follow, a friend to walk alongside, and a friend to reach back for. It is this last friend, the one to reach back for, that Mrs. Obama identifies as being a mentor. To her, mentoring is vital because it is the opportunity “to lend our experience and our wisdom in the hopes that it will give someone after us the strength to reach a little higher and dream a little bigger.” This quote stands out to me because regardless of the circumstances, mentoring is important in our society for leaving the world a little better than the way we inherited it. It is my hope as a mentor to share the work (past and present) of myself and my colleagues while also finding a way to challenge a mentee to continue if not improve upon the work being done. Mentoring shouldn’t mean settling for the “status quo.” Rather, the act of mentoring should encourage the desire to achieve more than those that came before.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/25/remarks-first-lady-national-mentoring-summit