| Traditional Mentor Application Form Please answer all of these questions as thoroughly as possible. You will be judged on the quality, not just the content, of your responses. Your application form will also tend to be the first information a mentor sees on you. Represent yourself honestly. Personal Information This information is required, but your information will not be kept in a public location to protect your identity. However, we feel this information is necessary to protect our students. 1. What is your User Name? Online name? Real name? 2. If you have participated in the Ezboard site, what was your username there? 3. What is your age? Date of birth? 4. What is your primary E-mail address? Secondary E-mail address (if applicable)? 5. What are your Instant Messenger Handles? (include MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, ICQ, or any other IM's) 6. Where do you live? 7. Are you in a stable living situation? 8. What is your current education level? 9. How long have you been training as a Jedi? 10. When are you typically available online? Prior Experience 1. Please share your offline teaching experience. Include enough details so we can have a good idea of your experience. 2. Please share any online teaching experience you have. This can include one on one teaching, or running entire courses. 3. Have you mentored a student in the past, either Jedi or non-Jedi related? Please share this experience with us. Include not just what you learned, but also the mistakes you made. 4. How were you trained? Did you have a mentor, were you solo trained, academy trained, or a mix of the three? Again, please share enough information so we can understand your background. 5. Do you consider yourself to be of a certain rank? Why do you feel you are of that rank? Please share any sources you have to back up your claim. Current Vision 1. What is your teaching philosophy? How do you go about training a student? Do you have a more organized approach, or more loose, allowing the student to dictate direction more often? 2. What do you consider your specialty, the area you prefer to focus on? 3. How do you view the mentor/apprentice relationship? 4. Do you plan to meet with students offline? Have phone contact? 5. How long do you see a training relationship lasting? Would you prefer to work with beginning students, teaching them the basics, or with advanced students, bringing them to the rank of knight? 6. Do you see yourself able to handle mentoring more than one student at a time, or would you prefer a one on one relationship? 7. Do you see yourself consistently being able to handle the responsibility of a student or students over a period of months? 8. Are there any subjects you feel incapable of teaching online? 9. Why would you like to teach at the Academy at JEDI? 10. How much interaction from the traditional training advisors do you feel comfortable with? 11. Do you believe in the general purpose of the academy? Why or why not? 12. Would you require your students to keep personal journals on site? 13. Is there anything else you would like to share? Additional Requirements In addition to completing an exam, to assure you posses the knowledge necessary to teach, we also require at least three letters of recommendation. Preferably these would come from previous mentors and previous/current students and give their opinions regarding you as a student and/or mentor. |
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