Last Updated 6/26/00
Advisor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend
is a manual on being a mentor to students in Science and Engineering
authored by the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy
of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.
Contemporary
Issues in Mentoring by Jean Baldwin Grossman,
editor (June 1999, 100 pages) can be downloaded at this site.
National Mentoring Partnership
is an advocate for the expansion of mentoring and a resource for
mentors and mentoring initiatives nationwide. This site offers
good materials for use in a mentoring program.
Mentoring Programs to Prepare Youth for College
offers practical information for establishing, maintaining, and
evaluating mentoring programs. This is part of the "Yes You
Can" guide, Oct. 1998, from the US Dept. of Education.
These digital reference services are
linking questions from the K-12 education community to expert
respondents. This is an emerging service, but is one educators
can explore and students can possibly use to gather information
from an expert in a career pathway of interest.
All Experts is a free service that
features thousands of volunteers in the areas of medicine, arts,
TV, sports, music, travel, humanities, love, education, business,
religion and more waiting to answer your one-on-one questions
via e-mail, and all for free! Select "Careers" from
the main index list, and then select the career area in which
you are interested. Below the list of experts is an index to volunteers
for responding to questions in topics that some may wish students
not engage (at least from the school environment). Please review
before using with students.
Ask
an Expert.com is a fabulous resource for career-minded
students and guidance counselors. The site has an entire Career/
Industry category just for asking career questions. However, regardless
of which web site category an expert is in, career-type questions
are always appropriate.
Ask
an Expert Page Suitable for all grades the Ask an Expert
Page provides links to experts in a number of different categories.
One of the greatest values of the World Wide Web is the people
that are part of the Internet community. This site offers a quick
one-step process for finding experts in any field.
Building the Virtual Reference Desk
is an article describing a virtual reference with a list of links
at the end of the article. Some good links students could or teachers
can use to gather information from experts.
XpertSite.com 
Connects people
with questions to people with answers. Just sign in with an e-mail
address to ask a question, or read answers to previous questions.
SECTIONS: Arts and Leisure | Business and Careers | Education
| Family and Relationships | Health and Wellness | Home and Garden
| Science | Services | Sports and Recreation | Technology and
the Internet | Travel and Tourism.