Is Mentoring a Stepping Stone to Personal and Professional growth of a Student? Introduction: Mentoring is a professional activity, a trusted relationship, a meaningful commitment. The origins of mentoring can be traced back to ancient Greece as a technique to impart to young men important social, spiritual and personal values. Mentoring is a joint venture. Successful mentoring requires both parties share responsibility for learning and sustaining the relationship. Effective mentors promote an
As it is hinted above, in the past, the tradition was that mentoring was considered as a context only for pre-service teachers’ learning and development, but in recent times, the idea and practice of it has been accepted as workplace professional learning and development for both novice and veteran teachers (Boreen, Johnson, Niday & Potts, 2009). Therefore, mentoring can also be done for newly qualified and experienced teachers while they are in their workplace. The idea is that attention has been
responsibility as the community engagement coordinator was to recruit mentors who could sustain our vision of enriching lives and building community through youth mentoring. It, however, was not until I had a mentoring relationship of my own that I realized the support of a compassionate, caring role-model truly can impact the life of a child. My mentee was a 10 year old boy who was facing significant challenges in his life. Every week for a year, I spent at least an hour with him. The goal was not to
skills, abilities and knowledge for students to make them more valuable in the job market. Many business schools in India are implementing programs on formal and informal mentoring to groom the students and develop them in a more holistic manner to be able to fetch a respective and desired position in an organization. Mentoring is always long term, requires time in which both parties can learn about on another and build a climate of trust. The business world too has adopted the program in order to
School push out is a problem that is occurring at an alarming rate for young men of color in the inner city. During the early 90’s, when the Bush administration proposed No Child Left Behind, the public school systems adopted not only a rigid testing format in attempt to raise the educational standards of our children, but also harsh punitive practices, such as zero tolerance policies were also introduces. However, rather than encouraging a pathway towards higher education for our students who come
COMPETENCIES The combination of required skills, necessary information, appropriate performance measures and the right corporate culture that the company requires to achieve its mission. A person gains competencies through education training, experience or natural abilities. DEFINITON “An underlying characteristic of a person which results in effective and superior performance on the job”. EXAMPLES • Technological competence • Control competence • Detecting and assessing environmental change. •