How To Be A Peer Mentor

Being a peer mentor has been a wonderful experience that has taught me many things. I’ve learned how to overcome hard challenges, has given me many new opportunities and has taught me many key things, such as teaching others better. Throughout out the first semester I have had many success stories when it comes to helping the sixth graders with assignments. Helping others has become easier for me and I am getting to know the students better. Some success stories include the time I helped Mrs.Saadia and when I helped the students. I helped Mrs.Saadia prepare the classroom for back to school night by cleaning the desks and cabinets organizing shelves and hanging up posters. This was a success for me because I finished getting done what needed to be done for back to school night. Another success story was when I helped a group working on a project. The group needed help with ideas. So I gave them a few ideas to use on their project and they ended up using on them. This was a success because I helped them complete their project.

Another challenge was not knowing everyone’s names while passing things out. Sometimes the students would ask a hard question that I didn’t remember from last year or I just simply didn’t understand what they were asking. With this I would try to figure it out with them, ask the teacher or explain what I did know to clarify what they were supposed to be doing a bit better. One challenge included understanding a kid who needs a little bit of help when it comes to speaking. Because it was hard to understand what the student was saying I had to be patient and really listen to what they were saying. Although these challenges were hard tasks to overcome I eventually learned what to do to not have the same problem or to do