Critical Analysis on Cross- Age Peer Mentoring
Mentoring is beneficial to both mentors and mentees. A type of mentoring that strongly suggests this is Cross- Age Peer Mentoring. According to the Handbook of Youth Mentoring, the definition of cross-age peer mentoring is “only when there are two or more years’ difference between the mentor and the mentee… and the mentor is indeed older (and presumably wiser and more mature) than the mentee” (234). The handbook specifies that peer mentors “must by definition be ‘older and wiser. ’” Based on this definition, I have been part of a peer mentoring program as both a mentor and mentee at a private school that I attended from kindergarten through eighth grade. This school runs from pre-k to the eighth …show more content…
Cross- age mentoring is beneficial to the mentor because it allows for the mentor to have a sense of responsibility and accountability as well as, provides the mentee with a role model figure in terms of the relationship. In regards to the mentor, Karcher sees it as, some “children develop intellectually not by being challenged by someone ahead of them, but by helping someone behind them” (236). This was seen the previous paragraph, where some of the mentors are able to identify and call out another mentor who is not doing what they are supposed to be doing. I can also say this is true because I run into one of my former prayer partners from time to time because we went to the same dance school and she goes to my church now. Even though I am no longer her prayer partner, I still feel a sense of responsibility to maintain my identity as a good student because from time to time she will ask me how I am doing in school or in other aspects of my life and I remember her telling me that she wanted to go to the same high-school that I went to. In certain ways she looks up to me the same way I had and still look up to and think of the prayer partners that graduated before me. I remember looking up to my older prayer partners and aspiring to be like some of them when I grew
Mentoring is beneficial to both mentors and mentees. A type of mentoring that strongly suggests this is Cross- Age Peer Mentoring. According to the Handbook of Youth Mentoring, the definition of cross-age peer mentoring is “only when there are two or more years’ difference between the mentor and the mentee… and the mentor is indeed older (and presumably wiser and more mature) than the mentee” (234). The handbook specifies that peer mentors “must by definition be ‘older and wiser. ’” Based on this definition, I have been part of a peer mentoring program as both a mentor and mentee at a private school that I attended from kindergarten through eighth grade. This school runs from pre-k to the eighth …show more content…
Cross- age mentoring is beneficial to the mentor because it allows for the mentor to have a sense of responsibility and accountability as well as, provides the mentee with a role model figure in terms of the relationship. In regards to the mentor, Karcher sees it as, some “children develop intellectually not by being challenged by someone ahead of them, but by helping someone behind them” (236). This was seen the previous paragraph, where some of the mentors are able to identify and call out another mentor who is not doing what they are supposed to be doing. I can also say this is true because I run into one of my former prayer partners from time to time because we went to the same dance school and she goes to my church now. Even though I am no longer her prayer partner, I still feel a sense of responsibility to maintain my identity as a good student because from time to time she will ask me how I am doing in school or in other aspects of my life and I remember her telling me that she wanted to go to the same high-school that I went to. In certain ways she looks up to me the same way I had and still look up to and think of the prayer partners that graduated before me. I remember looking up to my older prayer partners and aspiring to be like some of them when I grew