This fact presents significant challenges to teachers who must find a variety of methods to help a diverse population of students. Telementoring provides teachers a new set of options. Telementoring provides four major benefits for teachers. With telementoring projects, students become fully engaged in projects, and that makes teacher's jobs much easier. Teachers can then act to facilitate learning, rather than trying to convince students what they need to learn.
Students are responsible for developing their own special projects based on their interests.
When students are encouraged to explore their own curiosities, they are much more likely to engage in effective, multi-dimensional learning. Students focus on their particular interests, and learn to incorporate a variety of skills into a project - research, writing, math, experimentation, etc. Telementoring utilizes the skills and knowledge of adult professionals. By tapping into these specialists, teachers are provided a vast new resource of expertise that brings the world into the classroom. Likewise, students receive instruction from field professionals and gain access to significant new role models.