Mentor
A student mentor is a teacher who will assist her in achieving their academic goals. Student mentors may help students with academic, personal, and professional issues, as well as give emotional support when needed.
Mentee
Mentee is a student who has identified specific goals and who believes that the guidance and support of a mentor can help themto achieve their goal.
Student Mentoring is a unique method of supporting students to improve their learning skills, and developing overall personality.
Objectives of Mentoring
- To provide the platform to the students for sharing their problems related to academic and nonacademic matters.
- To monitor the progress of the students.
- To provide career guidance and assistance to the students
- To identify the slow learners and subject them for remedial classes.
- To provide an opportunity for overall development to all the students.
- To identify and mitigate psychological issues faced by students and refer them to experts for remedy.
Benifits of Mentorship
- Increased Institute graduation rates.
- Lower the Institute dropout rates.
- Healthier relationships and lifestyle choices.
- Better attitude about the Institute.
- Higher Studies enrollment rates and aspiration to higher education.
- Enhanced self-esteem and self-confidence.
List of Class Mentors
- Identify objectives, goals, needs and set goals of mentees
- Provide feedback on their growth and in their study programme.
- Identify mentees strengths and achievements
- Identify areas of development and Explore career options
- Assist on specific areas if required and follow up on their progress
- Discuss professional courses/certification courses/coaching issues etc..
- Maintain confidentiality of the information shared by their mentees
- Schedule at least one face-to-face meeting with mentees per month
- Collect and update all the mentees information time to time.
- Know about mentees performance/credits/backlogs etc.
- Have the clear idea on mentee’s goals/skills and health conditions
- Give advices on roles and responsibilities, ethics, morals, do’s and dont’s in the college.
- Motivate and council students about her shortage of attendance/credits/career prosperities
- Communicate to mentee’s parents/guardian time to time when it is necessary.
- Allotting Mentors to all students.
- Mentor–Mentee Ratio: 1:20.
- Maximum 25 students for each mentor and the total students in a section shall not exceed 28.
- Detailed information of the mentee is obtained in the first year.
- Conduct PTM from time to time.
- Maintain complete records of the mentee by the mentor until the end of the programme.
- Continuous monitoring by the mentor till the student leaves the Institution.
- In the first year, mentoring is undertaken by a faculty member. The same mentor continues till the end of the programme for better understanding and monitoring of the mentee.
- Mentor has to approach the Mentees to provide guidance on Academic Activities, to pass Backlog Subjects, Career Guidance, Internships, Higher Studies, Behavioral/ Psychological or any other health issues, Discipline in the college, COPs, Extracurricular Activities like Sports, culture, NSS, NCC Etc.
- Identify the problems/Interests of the Mentee
- If required, refer the Mentee to an expert for further guidance.
- Get feedback from the expert/counselor.
- Sort-out the issues if any, and inform parents.
- Keep record of the activity of each student.
- Finally Send monthly statement of mentoring activities in the month to Coordinator/ Hod/Dean.
- Coordinator will submit the consolidated monthly report along with action taken (Issues addressed) to Principal.
- Action taken report form should be documented.