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Re: How involved are your mentors?
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Originally Posted by engunneer
The students need to see the process to ask questions about it. My favorite question as a mentor is "why can't/don't we X?". That's the perfect time to learn what the student is thinking, and take a 10 minute diversion into the math about how the new system would work, compare it to the old, them let them help decide if we should change plans.
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This is such a wonderfully wise statement.
Jane
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26-03-2010, 10:35
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