Mentor Leadership Training Course

 

Self-Check Role Play #2

bullet  What To Do

Now you will have another chance to role play being a mentor. Remember to ask questions to encourage your partner to use the ASK strategy.

Now you will have the chance to practice being a mentor in another role play:

  • Read the message from the adolescent or young adult.
  • Respond to the message as you would if you were the mentor.
  • Remember to ask questions to encourage your partner to use the ASK strategy to solve problems and set goals.
  • Once you have responded, check your answer yourself to see if you remembered to use the ASK strategy.

bullet  Self-Check Role Play

You are the mentor for Anna: she is 17 years old and is looking for a summer job. She wants to make some money that she can put towards college, but she wants to be sure that she understands the impact of income on her social security benefits. Anna sends this message to you.

protege "I want to get a part-time job so I can start to save some money for college, but I am not sure how income will affect my disability payments. I want to be a teacher but college costs a lot of money. How can I make some money for college without losing my benefits?"

Pretend you are Anna's mentor. What would you write back to Anna?

  1. Enter your "message" in the box below.


    2. Message:

  2. Re-read your message and make changes (as necessary).
  3. Check to see if you remembered to use the ASK strategy.
  • If up answered the question yourself, are you sure that your information is accurate and complete?
  • If you sent them to someone else for an answer, are you sure that you referred them to a reliable source?
  • If you sent them to a site on the internet, did you check to make sure that the internet site was still active and would have the information that they need?
  • If you decided to send them to a site on the internet, you could write "Anna, the rules about social security payments can be confusing, so you are smart to get good information right from the start. There is a good website at http://www.ssa.gov/work/ResourcesToolkit/generalinfo.html that can give you information on the impact of income on your federal disability payments if you are saving money for a college education."
  • Did you remember NOT to try and tell Anna about something ( federal rules on disability payments) for which you have no personal expertise?

continue  If you used the ASK strategy to help your partner access disability-related information, congratulations. You have mastered the ASK strategy, and know how to access disability-related information and resources. Click here to go on to the next lesson.

review If you had difficulty using the ASK strategy, review the lesson again before you go on to the next lesson. Click here to go back and review the lesson again.

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The AAC Mentor Project Team
Penn State University
Last updated October, 2002.
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