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Residential Mentor - STUDENT

Shimer Great Books School

Shimer Great Books School

Stuart Patterson

Residential Mentors will help design and implement a summer program during late May through June, 2023. The program will involve mentoring high school seniors during a three week residential summer program in the last three weeks of June 2023. There are five open positions; two positions are residential, three are for commuters.
Residential Mentors’ duties will begin in late April and early May 2023 when they will begin making personal contact with Freedom Scholars (hereafter Scholars). They will attend an evening information session for admitted Scholars and parents in late May. They will participate in a three-day orientation to the CHP from June 7th through 9th and help lead an orientation for Scholars on Sunday, June 11.

• During the three weeks of the summer session, the Residential Mentors will fill three distinct shifts during the afternoon and evening: Team 1, Team 2 and a “floating” member of both teams.

• The two members of Residential Team 1 will meet with the Scholars for lunch at 12:10 each day and join two Academic Mentors in a debrief about the day’s morning seminars from 1:00 – 2:00 during which the Scholars will have a chance to debrief, recounting their thoughts on the substance of the discussion. Residential and Academic Mentors will also lead Scholars on a short lesson concerning a writing strategy for the Scholars to practice in a short reflection on the morning seminar that they will write up in their free study time by the end of the day. At 2:00 pm, Team 1 Residential Scholars will take over the responsibility for leading the Scholars through the rest of the afternoon, which will begin with a one-and-a-half hour activity, which may take a variety of forms:

• Recreational sports or games, walks into Naperville, workshops on picking colleges and starting applications, workshops with visiting faculty, and the like. After a half hour snack break, Scholars will have another hour and a half to work on their written reflections or reading for the next day’s seminars, which work Team 1 Residential Mentors will supervise. The two Team 1 Residential Mentors will end their day at 6 pm when the Scholars go in to dinner.

• Team 2 Residential Mentors will begin their days at 6 pm, joining the Scholars at dinner and accompanying them through the evening schedule, which will include an evening activity (similar to the afternoon activity above, including movie nights and guest speakers) from 7:00 – 9:00 pm. From 9:00 to 11:00, Scholars will end their days completing their reading and/or writing for the day and turn in at lights-out at 11:00. Residential Team 2 will stay in the dorms with the Scholars and end their official work day at 12 midnight. The Project Director will be in residence through each week night to assist Residential Team 2 in addressing any situations that emerge during the nighttime hours from 11 pm – 8 am.

• The “floating” Residential Mentor will join the Team 1 Residential Mentors generally at 2 pm and stay through evening activity. The floating Residential Mentor will help both Team 1 and Team 2 Mentors as an extra pair of hands during the busiest part of each day, helping deliver the academic mentoring as well as participating in activities.

OTHERKEYRESPONSIBILITIES
1. Support the College’s mission, vision and values, and contribute to the advancement of the College’s Strategic Plan.
2. Demonstrate a strong commitment to continuous quality improvement.
3. Demonstrate civil and inclusive behavior when interacting with staff, faculty, students and visitors to the College. Promote a flexible, collaborative and inclusive work and living environment and engage in educational opportunities to increase awareness and understanding of diversity and inclusion.