Peer mentoring

journey requires youth ages 8-17 to understand and manage such things as physical changes in their bodies, relationships with authority, friendships and relationships with others, greater freedom and responsibility for personal decisions and increased peer pressure. Through Boys & Girls Clubs Healthy Lifestyles initiative developing young people's capacity to engage in positive behaviors that nurture their own well-being, set personal goals and live successfully as self-sufficient adults is an…

dread going to school every day. “ By mentoring each other, students raise awareness of bullying and engage one another as a part of the solution. Strategies include anti- bullying pledges, anti-bullying poster contest, and “bullying boxes” where students can anonymously report incidents.” (Wilkins, 2011, para.9) With having these strategies and contest in schools allows the students who are getting bullied to voice their opinion without letting their peers or tormentor know it was them. If they…

different articles that this learner has found to back up this statement. This learner will describe what Bastable (2008) describes as the educational process, learning styles and the utilization of data to show how collaborative teaching and peer mentoring can enhance the growth of both student as well as instructor. Educational Process To begin Bastable (2008) suggest that the educational process focuses on planning and implementation of teaching based…

With regards to bullying, Jindal-Snape and Foggie (2008) state that students declare insufficient support with bullying and that students are effectively told to ‘handle it’ or ‘get over it’ (p. 9). Interestingly Arbuckle and Little (2004) pose that peer pressure increases at this level and subsequently there is a rise in both teasing and bullying. Arbuckle and Little (2004) further link transition and student behaviour issues together. Dauntingly, for students who are faced with transitioning…

Competency 001 The teacher understands human developmental processes and applies this knowledge to plan instruction and ongoing assessment that motivate students and are responsive to their developmental characteristics and needs. How, specifically does the teacher demonstrate this? The teacher recognizes the individual developmental differences of her students and plans her instruction to meet their needs. In the time I have been observing in the classroom, I noticed that there are at…

Several strategies for student success are highlighted in this article including opportunities to increase oral communication skills in the classroom and clinical settings, peer mentoring, study groups, and individual tutoring (Hansen & Beaver, 2012, p.247-248). Of personal interest related to my change project, Hansen and Beaver (2012) recommend the use of an Action Plan to assist faculty in addressing these core issues and assisting ESL students by meeting their individual needs (p. 249).…

was still nervous on the basketball court. In school, I liked to help my friends with problems in any way I could, then I found out about the Peer Mentoring program. It was a new program that teaches selected students how to help fellow peers with their problems. So I sent in an application and was accepted. During the following summer the soon to be Peer Mentors has a trip to go up to Julian, CA so I went. To my surprise, I was one of the few guys there so it was an awkward experience. During…

with the community, grow as a person, and provide lasting memories that they can carry on into other projects. There are different types of service learning such as volunteering at events, do a community clean up, or coming into a classroom and mentoring the students. Some of these options can be life impacting than other depending on what interests the students. By having these experiences help them discover what they might want to do in the future. The first type of service learning is…

independence from their parents and families (Neild, 2009). Social concerns include “peer conformity” which “peak[s] at ninth grade” (Cauley & Jovanovich, 2006, p. 16). Ninth graders exhibit an elevated sense of self and need for peer acceptance, along with physical and hormonal changes(Cauley & Jovanovich, 2006). The larger school environment may have many students feeling alienated and anonymous amongst their peers, especially since new relationships are formed and old friendships are tested…

a needs assessment was completed that showed only ¼ of organizations included peer educators as part of the treatment team, however at the most recent US Conference on AIDS, it was a concept presented to retain and engage patients in treatment that a coordinator at the Health Department and the consortia of the local Consumer Advisory Group felt would play a critical role (FDOH – Bureau of HIV/AIDS, n.d). Peer mentoring staff were added to the treatment team to assist patients in navigating the…