Course description
A 7-week course taught by Oliver DeMille
This course is recommended for more advanced teachers and mentors, and parents of youth, who have a basic foundation in the principles and practices of Leadership Education.
*Updated in 2019 with additional, critical content to qualify you as a TJEd High Tutor*
You know you’ve been wishing for something like this! We heard you.
You’re a good mentor, but you’ve been stressing. You’ve been wishing. You’ve been trying not to get frustrated with what might have been, what could be, if you were only a better mentor.
You worry about your kids not being ready for college. You worry that you’re not very good at making the most of great opportunities like discussions and simulations.
You’re tempted to push, assign, delegate or ignore. Sometimes you wonder if you’re really up to this! If only you knew what great mentors know!!!
Well, now you can.
Mentoring is vital for education. Good mentors lead to good education, and great mentors to great education.
This class is a practical, hands-on course on how to be a great mentor.
Veteran mentors as well as new mentors–and everyone in between–will see their mentoring significantly improve by completing this exciting class taught by Oliver DeMille.
Course Outline:
Week 1
- Audio: How to Teach How to Think!
- *Video: 3 Things to do if you feel stuck or uninterested in your studies
- *Audio: How to exponentially increase your ability to inspire teens
- Enrichment Activities
- Discussion with TJEd Team and Course Participants
Week 2
- Audio: How to Teach How to Think II - How to Run Transformational Colloquia
- *Audio: The 2 Halves of Scholar Phase
- Enrichment Activities
- Discussion with TJEd Team and Course Participants
Week 3
- Audio: How to Run, Teach and Debrief Fantastic Simulations
- *Video: Mission Power
- Enrichment Activities
- Discussion with TJEd Team and Course Participants
Week 4
- Audio: How to Teach and Mentor Writing, Part I
- *Audio: Cheater, Cheater, Pumpkin Eater: Teaching/Learning Writing the TJEd Way
- Enrichment Activities
- Discussion with TJEd Team and Course Participants
Week 5
- Audio: How to Teach and Mentor How to Think, Part II
- *Audio: How to Really (get kids to) do Scholar Phase!
- *Video: The TJEd High Vision!
- Enrichment Activities
- Discussion with TJEd Team and Course Participants
Week 6
- Audio: How to Teach and Mentor Writing, Part II - Draft 1
- Audio: How to Teach and Mentor Writing, Part II - Draft 2
- *Audio: Jackalopes and Unicorns: An Introduction to the New TJEd Personality Types and Learning Styles
- Enrichment Activities
- Discussion with TJEd Team and Course Participants
Week 7
- Audio: How to Teach and Mentor Math Excellence the Leadership Education Way
- *Audio: Three Short and Fantastic Math Readings
- *Video: Teaching Finances to Children and Youth
- *Video: +->(x) - Teaching Math Through the Phases
- Enrichment Activities
- Discussion with TJEd Team and Course Participants
How it Works
Each week of for the duration of the course, you will receive an (approximately 90 minutes) audio of Oliver’s instruction, with a corresponding class handout. Enrichment activities will be suggested and ideas for writing, discussion and application will follow each class period.
*Additional audios and videos are included for those completing the TJEd High Tutor Training.
Oliver DeMille is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling co-author of LeaderShift, a founding partner of The Center for Social Leadership and the author of A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the 21st Century. He has taught graduate courses on the complete writings of Thomas Jefferson, The Federalist Papers, Aristotle’s Politics and other great classics of liberty. Oliver is a popular keynote speaker, writer and business consultant.
His books on freedom and politics, including The U. S. Constitution and the 196 Indispensible Principles of Freedom, 1913 and We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident, have sold widely, and are the backbone of his teachings on liberty and economics. Presently, he devotes a majority of his time to writing and mentoring. Oliver is married to the former Rachel Pinegar. They have eight children. View his personal website and blog at OliverDeMille.com.