Peer mentoring

conducted by individuals who are involved in educational, training and development programs on the collegiate level. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of mentoring process on the development of college students’ leadership capacity. Limitations including investigating contributions of mentorship and mentoring process and excluding predicting college leadership development. The specific questions used to access the impact included determining whether a relationship existed…

During my next semester I will be involved in my normal course load, including money and banking, and a corporate consulting project through the Careers in Economics class. With my current internship I am obligated to work at minimum 12 hours a week to continue my account management training. My extracurricular activities next semester will be centered around training and racing for the UNH cycling team as well as continuing my participation as a brother in the Alpha Kappa Psi Business…

can fortify schools; enhance student achievement, and teacher learning. The benefits that collaboration can provide include professional development, increasing student success, and improving instruction. Novice teachers can certainly benefit from mentoring programs emphasizing collegial support. The opportunity to participate in the collaborative experience is one method to reduce the turnaround rate for new teachers. Furthermore, it helps them achieve greater personal satisfaction by believing…

Schools & Learning If using our God given talents and abilities to contribute to society and do God’s works is our sole purpose in life, then we must receive guidance in discovering and developing those talents. Schools play a considerable role in mentoring and guiding our students to their strengths and building on those strengths. It is the school’s job to not only develop their students academically, but also mentally, emotionally, morally, and spiritually (Gray, 1991). The ultimate goal of…

trying stage of life, I believe it’s important that they receive support, advocacy, and guidance from someone who can identify with, and validate their experiences. I was granted an opportunity to “escape” in a way that actually set me ahead of my peers. Most students though, won’t have that opportunity and will opt for other means of escape. I want to be in a career where I help prevent that, and I believe that my unique experience means I am better equipped…

There is a mentoring program that allows older students to help younger student. They can help with a number of things, such as with certain subjects or personally. How would this program help both the older and the younger students? I believe that this is a great program to help student young and old. It will help the younger students in a certain way and help the older students in a certain way. I wish we had a program like this at our school some people could really use it. This is a great…

an advocate for others and to promote issues that are of importance. In my school my leadership has helped bridge gaps between people. One example of how I accomplish this is with the Cultural Awareness Club I initiated. As a result of the club, my peers consider our school to be more inclusive of them and our student body more accepting of diversity. The outlook of the club is that people who are immigrants or who have culture at home feel believe they are less discriminated against; these…

Growing up in a family that nobody has attended college put a lot of pressure on myself. My parents have high hopes and dreams for my education. I have always wanted to show them how much I can do and getting into the honors college program was one of my goals. Even though people have told me how challenging that classes were. That did not stop me and I decided to pursue my goal and be part of the honors program. I decided to enroll in the program and got accepted. Some difficulties I had to…

nursing and know when to ask questions of another mentoring nurse. I would also like to serve the other…

A solution to this social issue is to start a program where young adults ages 12 to 18 can go to receive life-guidance, workshops, and activities to keep themselves away from trouble. Also, a way to prevent youth from having difficulties at home, school and in their community. Throughout the years, there had been many prevention programs to help at-risk youth. Most of them were successful. However one of the programs that were not fully successful to help youth was the Beyond Scared Straight…