The Power of Mentoring Urban Students

Catherine Shane McVey is a certified “Master Teacher.” She has been teaching lower socioeconomic, minority, and immigrant middle- and high-school children for over twenty years in urban Chicago schools. A Fulbright Scholar, she develops curriculum to meet the needs of a very specific type of lower socioeconomic, urban, and immigrant children.

Student participants to be announced

What realistic, specific ways can adults assist urban students in the future? What can educators do in the future to meet the challenges of this critical area of public school education in the inner city?

This session will be an opportunity for participants to listen to a Master Teacher share her teaching experiences and ask some of her former students what can be done to mentor and encourage higher education for lower socioeconomic, urban, and immigrant children.

Highlights

Participants will leave this session with an understanding of:

  • The keys to success in the world of teaching in the inner-city public schools.