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Mentorship

student mentorship

Mentorship

Mentorship is a form of teaching that includes walking alongside the students and encouraging them to learn from mentor’s example.

Objectives

  • To support teaching-learning process
  • To achieve overall development of students

Mentor

A mentor is a person who acts as a guide and an adviser. He/she is a role model, one that you can learn from, and one who is interested in passing on knowledge, experience, thoughts not to mention in­sights to others as inspiration for personal and vocational growth.

A mentor offers:

Information

  • Mentors share their knowledge, experiences and wisdom.

Contacts

  • Mentors provide valuable opportunities by facilitating academic, career, and personal contacts.

Challenges

  • Mentors stimulate curiosity and build confidence by presenting new ideas, opportunities and challenges.

Support

  • Mentors encourage growth and achievement by providing an open and supportive environment.

 Goal Setting

  • Mentors help the mentees discover talents and interests and define and attain their goals

Advice

  • Mentors guide the mentee in reaching academic, career and perso­nal goals.

Role models

    • By sharing stories of achievement with the mentee, mentors can be­come role models.

Characteristics of Mentoring

  1. Mentoring requires a high degree of mutual trust between the mentor and the mentee
  2. Effective communication is the key to the mentoring
  3. It is a systematic process of building a partnership.

Methodology

  • One mentor: Around ___ students