21st Century Atlanta Scholars

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What Is Mentoring?

Mentoring begins when a person strategically affects the life of someone else by fostering insight, indentifying needed knowledge, and expanding the other person's greater potential.
Mentoring is a method of teaching and fostering growth. It involves an experienced individual who teaches and guides someone with less knowledge in given areas but in a non-judgmental fashion.
A developmental, caring, sharing, and helping relationship where one person invests time, know-how, and effort to enhancing another person's growth. knowledge, and skills, and responds to critical needs in the life of the protege in ways that prepares the individual for greater productivity of achievement in the future.

What Is Scholar Mentoring?

Support for scholars is provided through an assigned mentor, who meets at least twice a month with his or her assigned student and coaches the student on student on required essays and the application process.
Listen to student's need, ideas, dreams, and concerns
Share experiences, knowledge, networks, and pertinent professional expertise
Celebrate student's accomplishments
Protect confidence by respecting needs for both openness and privacy

What Can Mentors Do?

Get involved in the process; attend student activities, monitor progress and encourage that on time completion of assignments (you will be informed of all assignments/deadlines/upcoming events)
Support student through difficult application process

- Encouragement (on a path less traveled)
- Understanding (social, academic, future)

Participate in mentor/mentee activities
Facilitate and/or provide transportation for student to 21st CAS events

Program Guidelines

Mentors must sign Mentor Agreement
Mentors must meet protégé as frequently as possible to cultivate trust, reciprocity, and mutually beneficial relationship
Develop a consistent line of communication with student

                   - Meet as scheduled
                   - Weekly communication through phone calls, text messages, facebook, emails, ect.
                   - Follow up with protégé on upcoming deadline and events

Mentors conduct initial meeting with protégé's parent to obtain parent authorization (Ms. Revolus will provide form after mentor's match)

Mentoring Topics/ Meeting Ideas

Mentoring Topics:

                   - Interviewing Skills/ Self-advocacy skills
                   - Public Speaking
                   - Pre-writing/ Writing Workshops
                   - Coping Skills

Meeting Ideas:

                   - Library Day
                   - Movie Day
                   - Service Projects
                   - College Visits