I will guide you to the right path, whoever you are and whoever you want to be

A Mentor is a pathway to success!

Mentoring is a programme conducted to help students to strengthen their varied capabilities and to build an congenial relationships between teachers and student community. Students require mentors to assist in navigating the complexities of higher education and uncertainity and anticipation of what post college life has in store.

The Youth with different backgrounds, lot of dreams and aspirations, crumbled by societal fear and lack of confidence are at risk. Working one-to-one with young people, to counsel and guide them ahead in the right path is the main objective of the MENTOR of Sri Aurobindo College.

This is the period of transition where the young minds make decisions about how big or little they can aim at and accomplish them .Therefore the mentor can be the best role model. “Students do what the teacher does and not what teacher says”. As values deal with the heart but not the brain, mentors can reach the heart of youth and mould, motivate them With the aforesaid motif, Mentoring System is initiated to inculcate the leadership virtues in both students and teachers at Sri Aurobindo College.

Benefits

Teachers

• Gain personal satisfaction of moulding the young minds
• Develop leadership qualities along with patience, insight and understanding

Student Mentors

• Develop leadership qualities and team work
• Experience cultural, social and economic diversities different from their own.
• Improve communication skills and subject knowledge.
• Gain an insight into the societal pressures ,risks and problems of the peer members

Students

• Gain academic support.
• Motivated to set goals for future
• Experience the special attention of the teacher and another supportive peer to share their fears and problems.
• Improve learning skills and life skills

Institution

• Gain academic support.
• Motivated to set goals for future
• Experience the special attention of the teacher and another supportive peer to share their fears and problems.
• Improve learning skills and life skills
• To guide slow learners/below average students to potential learners
• To monitor progress in the holistic development of a student

The main objective of the mentor system is to strengthen the dynamics of learning, sharing and caring –knowledge, academic and personal growth between the teacher and students. The matrix of 1:30 ratio is designed to involve all the teachers in the process.

The teacher meets a student once in a week, while student mentors (advanced learners) would monitor the students performance every day. The minutes of very week’s meeting will be documented in a register by the respective teacher.

The IQAC in its meeting took an initiative of implementing the mentoring of students. It was decided to assign 30 students to each of the teacher –mentor.The guidelines prepared by the IQAC to ensure uniformity are as follows:

• Teacher mentors should segregate the given set of students into 4-5 groups with advanced learners who have maturity and commitment as the student mentors.
• Mentors should maintain and update the register as and when they meet the group. Minutes of the meeting should be recorded.
• The teacher mentors are expected to give their complete dedication for one year and devote atleast 3-4 hours in a week to one –on –one or group discussions/ counselling
• The teacher mentors should subtly put forth the issues related to academics. To the concerned subject/class teacher.
• The teachers may collect the family background of the students for the better understanding for the personal counselling.
• The teacher mentor should take up the personal and academic counselling to open up the doors of opportunity for the student.