Teach to Work

How a Mentor, a Mentee, and a Project Can Close the Skills Gap in America

Patty Alper

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781351813204
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

The United States is abundantly rich in adults with "know how." By connecting mentors -- educated adults with expertise and knowledge -- with mentees -- teens and young adults who lack motivation, experience, and role models in their lives -- we can begin to close this gap dramatically. We can prepare the next generation for the jobs of tomorrow by adding real-world, project based experience to their education.

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Foreword
• Preface: A Snapshot
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part One Why Mentor
• Part Two How to Mentor
• Appendix A Call to Action: Mentors’ Resource Guide
• Author’s Note
• Index
• About the Author