III. Your faculty mentor
Once your selected project is identified and approved, you will carefully be matched by the co-teachers with a faculty mentor to guide you through your research effort. Your mentor may or may not be an expert on your topic but s/he will be an enthusiastic and resourceful coach and advocate. Throughout the school year, you will frequently conference and communicate (both in person and online) with your mentor about the development of your project. At the very least, we expect you to meet with your mentor once every two weeks. Your mentor will be reading your blog and weekly plans regularly and commenting in response to your entries. S/he will be following the work you post on your website. S/he is also a resource for community-based sources, internships, possible individuals to interview, and possible individuals who could help you to advance your research and project. S/he could also be another opinion as you prepare and rehearse presentations. It is essential that you keep your mentor up-to-date on your progress on your project.
So that everyone is “in the loop” on your project, we have set up a shared platform that documents all of our progress--your weekly plans, annotated bibliographic records, your key documents, etc. Some of this will be in Google classroom; other documents will be a shared Google folder.
You are responsible for scheduling face-to-face meetings with your mentor. Again, our expectation is that you will meet at least once every two weeks of the academic year.
You are also responsible for meeting with Ms. Ellis, the school’s Head Librarian, and/or with Ms. Harari, the school’s Librarian. You will meet as a group and individually with either of them during class time in early September. We encourage that you continue to meet with the librarians as they are your allies in this project; they are happy to help you search for resources, get you material via interlibrary loan, get you access to other libraries both locally and elsewhere, order materials (as appropriate) for you, etc. Ms. Ellis authored the excellent libguide for the Capstone project and you should make sure you consult this as you undertake your research. (http://libguides.bls.org/content.php?pid=610084&sid=5042985).
You may also have informal outside mentors on your project as well. You must inform the co-teachers of any outside mentors you are consulting. No doubt several of you will find experts in fields related to your research beyond the walls of Boston Latin School. However, your BLS faculty mentor will be the person with whom you are required to meet with regularly and who needs to be kept current on your progress. And so are the classroom teachers!
Once your selected project is identified and approved, you will carefully be matched by the co-teachers with a faculty mentor to guide you through your research effort. Your mentor may or may not be an expert on your topic but s/he will be an enthusiastic and resourceful coach and advocate. Throughout the school year, you will frequently conference and communicate (both in person and online) with your mentor about the development of your project. At the very least, we expect you to meet with your mentor once every two weeks. Your mentor will be reading your blog and weekly plans regularly and commenting in response to your entries. S/he will be following the work you post on your website. S/he is also a resource for community-based sources, internships, possible individuals to interview, and possible individuals who could help you to advance your research and project. S/he could also be another opinion as you prepare and rehearse presentations. It is essential that you keep your mentor up-to-date on your progress on your project.
So that everyone is “in the loop” on your project, we have set up a shared platform that documents all of our progress--your weekly plans, annotated bibliographic records, your key documents, etc. Some of this will be in Google classroom; other documents will be a shared Google folder.
You are responsible for scheduling face-to-face meetings with your mentor. Again, our expectation is that you will meet at least once every two weeks of the academic year.
You are also responsible for meeting with Ms. Ellis, the school’s Head Librarian, and/or with Ms. Harari, the school’s Librarian. You will meet as a group and individually with either of them during class time in early September. We encourage that you continue to meet with the librarians as they are your allies in this project; they are happy to help you search for resources, get you material via interlibrary loan, get you access to other libraries both locally and elsewhere, order materials (as appropriate) for you, etc. Ms. Ellis authored the excellent libguide for the Capstone project and you should make sure you consult this as you undertake your research. (http://libguides.bls.org/content.php?pid=610084&sid=5042985).
You may also have informal outside mentors on your project as well. You must inform the co-teachers of any outside mentors you are consulting. No doubt several of you will find experts in fields related to your research beyond the walls of Boston Latin School. However, your BLS faculty mentor will be the person with whom you are required to meet with regularly and who needs to be kept current on your progress. And so are the classroom teachers!