Teach to Work: How a Mentor, a Mentee, and a Project Can Close the Skills Gap in America
284Teach to Work: How a Mentor, a Mentee, and a Project Can Close the Skills Gap in America
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Overview
Teach to Work is a call to action for mentors currently sitting on the sidelines. Whether you are a banker, lawyer, architect, accountant, engineer, IT specialist, or artist, you have the experience and skillset to become an ambassador of talent, grit, and transferable skills. The book provides a step-by-step guide to help professionals share their knowledge with the next generation of workers through this intergenerational experience.
Based on Alper’s fifteen years of mentoring inner-city high-school students, Teach to Work proves how corporations, professionals, and boomers can have a significant impact on the professional future of America’s youth. Drawing from real-life stories and letters received from students, teachers, and fellow mentors describing pride of accomplishment, Alper helps professionals embark on this journey to transform lives, mentoring one student at a time.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781629561622 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 03/28/2017 |
Pages: | 284 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d) |
About the Author
In her book and speaking engagements, Patty describes how Project Based Mentorship® brings together corporate employees, retirees, and businesses as a corps of knowledge practitioners, with the common goal of passing on skills to the next generation. Patty draws on her extensive philanthropic work to bring the business and education sectors together meaningfully, building on the strength of each to close the skills gap. A trustee of the Alper Family Foundation for the last 18 years, Patty's unique approach to entrepreneurial mentorship has been featured in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post (twice), TIME, and Philanthropy Magazine.
Through her services on the national board of NFTE, Patty's vision served as the groundwork for the Adopt-a-Class program she founded in 2001. During her years of service at NFTE, she invited countless business leaders to join her in a mentoring capacity, helping teachers across the country inspire and coach entrepreneurship students on their business plans. Shortly after college, Patty spent five years working with incarcerated, runaway, and suicidal youth in Iowa's Youth Detention System, and she served as a counselor to psychotic adolescents at Chestnut Lodge, a long-term psychiatric hospital in Maryland.
In 1980, Patty was one of the first women in the construction field as cofounder of a multi-million dollar project management company. The company specialized in building corporate headquarter facilities and high-end interiors for large businesses in the DC market. That innovative spark led Patty to another niche, producing and hosting her own radio talk show, For Love or Money, on Infinity broadcasting. Today, the Alper Portfolio Group provides consulting services for the commercial real estate, financial, and non-profit sectors.
Patty holds a bachelors degree in English and Theology from Cornell College Iowa, and she has continued masters-level marketing studies at American University. She is married and has two stepchildren, as well as a grandchild. She loves competitive golf, art, theater, and music, and continues her study of theology.
Table of Contents
Part One: Why MentorChapter 1 Giving Corporations a Soul The Benefits of a Workforce That Mentors
Chapter 2 Professionals Find Meaning in Mentoring Forging Win–Win Relationships
Chapter 3 A Student’s Lifeline Inspiring Students Because You Did It and They Can Too
Part Two: How to Mentor
Chapter 4 Project Based Mentoring An Intergenerational Catalyst
Chapter 5 Rules of Engagement Establishing Expectations and Parameters
Chapter 6 Meet the Teacher Setting the Course
Chapter 7 First-Day Jitters A Game Plan to Get You Started
Chapter 8 One on One Building Rapport, One Student at a Time
Chapter 9 Lesson Plans for Leading the Class The World Through Your Lens
Chapter 10 The Art of Presenting Turning Students into Teachers
Chapter 11 Bringing Class to a Close What Happens to Mentor–Mentee Relationships
Appendix A Call to Action Mentors’ Resource Guide