Effective Peer Mentoring

Building an Effective Peer Mentoring Program at Marion School District

Linda Schoon, Case Manager at Asprie, said, “The best mentor relationships are reciprocal.” A mentor and mentee may serve in creating a double-impact, where they both take part in helping one another achieve their full potentials or learning something new: either about themselves or from the other. Both mentor and mentee receive the beneficiary momentum of key essentials that impact a community, educationally and spiritually.

Through the enhancement of opportunities, one peer can help another peer in search of optimism: mentoring. (National Mentoring Working Group) Mentoring does not take place overnight. One peer first needs to get engaged in the effect one wants to make

A Mentor will want to work with the mentee to help him gain understanding how education can have a positive benefit for the future of making money, such as, showing the mentee to not scare away from asking a question in class, because of the old saying, “No question is a dumb question.” Tell the mentee that his voice and words are just as important as another. If the mentee was not getting the right answer in homework but other people in his class were, tell him that the other may be good at this and so he might have to work harder. Teach the mentee to never give up and to think about what he is better at in another aspect of school. The mentor should remind the mentee about good grades and inform him he should care in school then the teacher will care just as much to lend him some help. State to the mentee that the mentor will help him if he ever needs tutoring in a subject or any other aspects for the next years to come: give them encouraging wisdom that they could never forget in fun ways, even show the mentee a story about how powerful a high school education can impact his future self.

Organization will keep the mentee on track when remembering what needs to get accomplished and when it needs to be done, keeping his home life calm. Mentors also need to work with the mentee to conduct volunteerism through the community they live in, so the mentee understands if he helps one person, even with the consideration

Once the mentor has the parent and mentee fill this paper out, you will want to give a copy for the mentee of the same paper with the mentors interests. Before this is all done, the mentor will want to tell the family member about what month the mentor believes the mentoring relationship will come to an ending and how a small celebratory party will be in