My junior year in high school, I became a student mentor in our campus’s peer counseling program. This was an incredibly rewarding experience as I had the opportunity to help freshman students assimilate into our high school dynamic. As a peer mentor, I assisted students with personal problems and mediated issues with teachers in order to maximize their learning experience. I also acted as a role model for my mentees by talking frequently about AP and Honors courses and how to be successful in such programs. I put effort into learning about each individual's interests and goals so that I could expose them to clubs and academic courses that they may appreciate such as the Biomedical Academy or our school’s robotics team.…
I met Andrea Seaberg two years ago when she was a senior at Detroit Lakes High School. She had been placed to work with me (a second grade teacher) from her School-To-Work advisor after she had told her that she was interested in becoming a teacher someday. Andrea and I hit it off immediately. She had the same love and energy that I feel I have as an educator. Needless to say, when she asked me to be her mentor throughout her schooling at Bemidji State University, I was thrilled.…
The other Wes Moore had a grandfather growing up to fill the male role model in his young life. Mentoring has a profound effect of changing the life of young men and women, “through modeling, sharing successes and failures, and providing practical steps to achieve success through good decision making, mentors can fill a role that…
My first memory at North Carolina Governor’s School West is of crying next to my parents on a bench under a giant tree. It was move-in day for the five-and-a-half-week session, and I was already sure that they would be the worst weeks of my life. I was terrified; I knew no one except two students from my high school, who were rising juniors and to whom I had never spoken before. After that stressful first day, I fell asleep unsure of how I could make it on my own in a place filled with such talented, intelligent, and unfamiliar people. A week later, I knew that Governor’s School would be one of the most treasured experiences of my entire life.…
1. What interests the most about the ULN Mentor position is the fact that I can take on the role of a mentor and help guide incoming ULN members as they transition into the college life of UT. Growing up as the older brother in the household, I was always asked advice from my younger brother. From help on homework to general advice about growing up in middle school, I was always there to be take on the role of a mentor. I want to take on that role again, this time to help incoming longhorns take their first steps into the 40 acres.…
Reflection Journal #2: Clarke County Mentor Program The Clarke County Mentor Program is a mentor program that was established in March of 1991 as a joint initiative of the Athens Clarke County School District and the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce in order to provide mentors to local students between grades K-12. The program allows mentors to visit mentees during the school hours for about one hour, once a week, for at least an entire year. The mentors are not encouraged to provide academic support but be a genuine adult for the youth to have a stable, caring adult in the life of the child other than their parent or guardian. Mentor-mentee relationships can also be allowed to develop as a community mentorship with the program, and some pairs…
The common book, Orphan Train written by Christina Baker Kline, not only brought a realistic feature to the novel, but also made the story a touching and perspective changing one. Kline’s insisted on basing the book on real life occurrences and stories from people who experienced the orphan train first hand. By interviewing those who lived through the events first hand, Kline successfully made the book as real and true as possible. Vivian’s past allowed her to have a deep connection with Molly, which is something as an honor mentor leader we can take into consideration and apply ourselves.…
(P) Shares work and ideas with other teachers in my school or district 1. AP Geography Collaboration (2016). With 90% of my freshman Avid students enrolled in AP geography it is imperative to collaborate with Chris Mason, their teacher, on their progress and decipher interventions for specific students. Not only is this class of high rigor, but it also is the first semester that 9th graders are taking an Advanced Placement class.…
Another reason the mentoring program should stay is because it can increase social skills. Your whole life social skills are needed. With the program I believe meeting new people and having to talk to them and open up to them can form good social skills. The freshman come in not knowing anyone so talking to us can improve their social skills for their 4 years of high school.…
Background and Statement of Issue: Kentucky has been providing education-focused and work participation-driven case management to the TANF population since 1998. The TA Requestor, Ms. Shauna King-Simms, Director of Transitional Education Programs at the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) heard a description of Crittenton Women’s Union’s (CWU’s) Mobility Mentoring® Model for case management at the Regions I-IV Roundtable in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in mid-August 2014. She realized that Kentucky had already been conducting this type of case management with their Ready to Work and Work and Learn programs, and that it would be a good model to bring to their program staff since it offered additional tools and resources for…
Life Coaching Programs By Jacque Crook Feb 22, 2012 Do you know where you are going in life and do you currently possess the needed motivation in order to actually attain your goals? Most people will mention they have a strong desire to achieve their goals in life but cannot say for sure they know what to do in order to get the results they desperately want. If you are in such a quandary, here is some positive news: there are life coaching programs able to help you achieve the desired outcomes you are seek.…
Assignment 1: Does peer mentoring improve college freshmen retention rate? Samantha Dean A common question posed by administrators at institutions of higher education is how to retain college freshmen. The reasons that first-year students do not return to college as a sophomore range from family issues to lack of friends and loneliness to struggling academically and lack of money. Universities cannot control all factors relating to a student’s decision to not come back as a sophomore; however, they can experiment with ways to assist students who feel lonely or struggle with academics.…
Friar Lawrence Advisor or Deceiver? A good mentor is a gift from the universe, a bad one puts you in your deathbed within a week. That is exactly what happened in Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence might have truly cared about his confessors but he provided horrible advice. This advisor had wrong approaches to several situations and ended up ruining two innocent lives.…
I originally thought that by just being there for someone you were a mentor. I now know through this program that mentoring involves giving both tools and advice to effectively help your mentee. The relationship with a mentee is somewhat different than a relationship between friends. There is a sort of bond that occurs from helping the student but the student holds you to higher standards than a friend would. I am excited about mentoring next semester because I want to hone my mentoring skills even further be able to help my mentees in a more effective way.…
Allen’s Case Study Madaline Becker Millersville University Introduction: At the age of ten, Allen is in the end stages of ‘middle childhood’ – a time when “many children experience good health and steady growth as they master new athletic skills, learn thousands of words, become less dependent on families.” (Berger 2008, p. 321). This time, which extends from ages six to eleven, is a time marked by the growth and maturation of the child, in both body and mind, a time when a child is learning how to interact with the world and those around him, both physically, socially, and emotionally (Berger 2008). Children will transition into elementary school, if they have not already, as well as face the transition from their elementary schools…