Training Mentees
Hi Everyone,
Patti and I are going to be putting together a new fact sheet on training mentees and we would love to get your ideas and input. If you conduct mentee training and you would be willing to share agendas, training ideas and exercises please let us know. You can enter the info here or e mail me at Judy@emt.org or call, 310 990 3911.
Thank you,
Judy Taylor
Hello,
I am a newbie to online forum posting but could not pass up on this opportunity to ask a few questions to help me improve my mentoring program.
Is it necessary to train the mentees? My program is predominantly made up of fourth graders
What would I train the mentees on? They would not get the policy and procedure manual or would they? Besides an overview of how the mentoring sessions are going to run, what else would you think I could include?
My program runs in three k-8 buildings afterschool for one and half hours and is a predominantly one-to-one peer-to-peer program. Fourth graders as mentees, 7th and 8th graders as Jr. High Mentors, and 9th thru 12th graders as Senior High Mentors.
I could even use the first session as the training day for mentees and the 2nd mentoring session would be with the mentors.
Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Hello, Toni. In terms of how your initial mentee training might look, you might want to check out this resource on mentee training:
Training New Mentees: A Manual for Preparing Youth in Mentoring Programs (2003) Features age-appropriate agendas and training activities. http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/pdf/training_new_mentees.pdf
Since your program is a peer mentoring program, you might also want to take a look at some of the training and activity suggestions in this resource (and post questions to the peer mentoring section of this forum!):
http://www.edmentoring.org/pubs/peer_book.pdf
Hi everyone - For the upcoming fact sheet Judy Taylor described here, we will be focusing on the topic of providing ongoing training activities for mentees rather than the new mentee orientation most of you are providing. One example is providing some kind of personal safety training (see a related post in this forum on that topic here: http://mentoringforums.nwrel.org/node/40).
So if any of you are doing some regular, ongoing training with mentees - or maybe doing some group activities to train mentors and mentees together - please share them. Thanks!
Patti MacRae
National Mentoring Center