MENTORING ROLES
Are you an occasional mentor who offers timely advice? Someone who is being watched and does not even know that they are a passive mentor? You may be invited. What about an intensive mentor, willing to develop the life of a young community member? You can still be in high school and fulfill this role! We are all peer mentors whether we realize it or not, but here is a tool to really hold one another accountable. Where do you fit in?
Apprentice? Mentors? Proteges? Community? Parents? Businesses?
Depending on your role and level you have an opportunity to Replace the Displaced. You will do so by living out different approaches to mentoring. By completing the five phases as a Mentor, Apprentice, Protege, etc, you will accomplish the following:
Augments literacy levels of younger students: Peer Mentoring
Remediates literacy levels of older students: Intensive Mentoring
Trains students in being citizen journalists: Occasional Mentoring
Students train other students and cover the issues most concerning to them in the neighborhood: Peer Mentoring
Students become journalists and activists: Intensive Mentoring
Allows students to invite community role models into their network: Passive Mentoring
Allows students to be tracked when they are highly mobile: Occasional Mentoring
Point System for activities completed on portfolio allows them to be transitioned to the next phase of their academic career: Peer Mentoring
Entices students to create real money making ad campaigns with local businesses who support what they are accomplishing: Passive Mentoring
Fosters healthy competition between groups and schools to raise reading levels and social uplift: Peer Mentoring
Positions marginalized youth to create dialogue across the state, nation, and country, and to find a common voice in creating positive solutions for their generation: Occasional Mentor
Students develop relational trust while utilizing social network, allowing it becomes a conduit for an academic identity: Passive Mentoring
Student evolves into change agent: Peer,Intensive,Occasional,Passive Mentors.