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Book Synopsis Mentor Programs and the Impact on School Connectedness by : Jodi L. Weatherman
Download or read book Mentor Programs and the Impact on School Connectedness written by Jodi L. Weatherman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation was designed to examine the impact school-based mentor programs have on school connectedness when compared to a control group with no mentoring. Further, the study was designed to determine the differential impact between peer mentoring and adult mentoring. The research study was also designed to provide data to inform the implementation of mentor programs when comparing higher- and lower-performing students. -- School connectedness is the belief by students that adults and peers in the school care about their learning as well as about them as individuals. The researcher developed a mentor program for peer mentoring and adult mentoring with relationship building activities over the course of the mentee's freshman year. The measure of student connectedness was determined with the pre and post responses from the NC Student Learning Conditions Survey. Five constructs from the NCSLCS determined the measure of school connectedness: Academic Engagement, Social Engagement, 21st Century Skills, Caring and Safe Environment, and Classroom Environment. -- An analysis of the data revealed that there was no statistical significance observed at the conclusion of the mentor program when comparing the pre- and post-mean differences. However, there were trends that demonstrated the importance of teacher relationships with students. The data implies that teachers can have a positive impact on social engagement and 21st century skills for students, especially lower-performing students. The data also implies that peers positively impact higher-performing students.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Youth Mentoring by : David L. DuBois
Download or read book Handbook of Youth Mentoring written by David L. DuBois and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly updated Second Edition of the Handbook of Youth Mentoring presents the only comprehensive synthesis of current theory, research, and practice in the field of youth mentoring. Editors David L. DuBois and Michael J. Karcher gather leading experts in the field to offer critical and informative analyses of the full spectrum of topics that are essential to advancing our understanding of the principles for effective mentoring of young people. This volume includes twenty new chapter topics and eighteen completely revised chapters based on the latest research on these topics. Each chapter has been reviewed by leading practitioners, making this handbook the strongest bridge between research and practice available in the field of youth mentoring.
Book Synopsis The Impact of a School-based Mentoring Program on At-risk Student Achievement and School Connectedness by : Richard Paul Taylor (Jr.)
Download or read book The Impact of a School-based Mentoring Program on At-risk Student Achievement and School Connectedness written by Richard Paul Taylor (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mentorship is a catalyst capable of unleashing one's potential for discovery, curiosity, and participation in STEMM and subsequently improving the training environment in which that STEMM potential is fostered. Mentoring relationships provide developmental spaces in which students' STEMM skills are honed and pathways into STEMM fields can be discovered. Because mentorship can be so influential in shaping the future STEMM workforce, its occurrence should not be left to chance or idiosyncratic implementation. There is a gap between what we know about effective mentoring and how it is practiced in higher education. The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM studies mentoring programs and practices at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It explores the importance of mentorship, the science of mentoring relationships, mentorship of underrepresented students in STEMM, mentorship structures and behaviors, and institutional cultures that support mentorship. This report and its complementary interactive guide present insights on effective programs and practices that can be adopted and adapted by institutions, departments, and individual faculty members.
Book Synopsis School Connectedness by : Lucy Marie Rabold Murdock
Download or read book School Connectedness written by Lucy Marie Rabold Murdock and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition to a new high school can disrupt social networks, cause anxiety, and hinder academic success for secondary students. School-based comprehensive peer-mentoring programs that focus on transitioning secondary students have the potential to alleviate the anxiety of a changing school climate by promoting school connectedness, building peer relationships, and being sensitive to the social, academic, and procedural concerns of transitioning secondary students (Cauley & Jovanovich, 2006). Students who feel connected to school feel personally accepted, respected, included, and supported by others in the school social environment, all of which may guard against student alienation, poor self-esteem, and other deviant behaviors for adolescent youth. The following research paper discusses how focused school-based peer-mentoring programs for adolescents may help to build school and peer connectedness; promote academic achievement, healthy development, and psychological health; increase protective factors; and decrease risky behaviors. A presentation and program guide for secondary administration and staff were developed based on the information found in the literature review.
Book Synopsis The Cross-Age Mentoring Program (Camp) for Children with Adolescent Mentors by : Michael Karcher
Download or read book The Cross-Age Mentoring Program (Camp) for Children with Adolescent Mentors written by Michael Karcher and published by Developmental Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cross-Age Mentoring Program (CAMP) for Children with Adolescent Mentors is a school-based, after-school program designed to provide groups of teenage mentors the structure, guidance, and support needed to effectively mentor younger children. CAMP targets improvements in both the children's (mentees') and the adolescents' (mentors') connectedness to school, teachers, family, peers/friends, and self (where connectedness is defined as positive affect toward and consistent engagement in contexts, relationships and activities). A year-long connectedness curriculum (for 4th-6th grade mentees) targets multiple domains of connectedness with domain-specific activities (e.g., projects involving teachers and parents). Guidelines are presented for staff and experienced mentors to create new activities for subsequent program years or for different youth populations (e.g., for middle school age or health promotion specifically). CAMP is a universal or primary prevention program intended and appropriate for hybrid groups of youth at varying levels of risk for academic, social, or behavioral problems (the ratio of high to low risk mentees should not exceed 1:5). In CAMP youth meet in mentor-mentee dyads within a small group setting (
Book Synopsis Mentoring by : Jean Baldwin Grossman
Download or read book Mentoring written by Jean Baldwin Grossman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis School-based Mentoring by : Penny Marie Ayers
Download or read book School-based Mentoring written by Penny Marie Ayers and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study utilized data collected during the 2000/2001 academic year as part of an outcome evaluation of YouthFriends, a school-based mentoring program. This study investigated the extent to which the quality of one-to-one mentoring relationships, as indicated by relationship satisfaction, predicts mentees' sense of school connectedness and attitudes toward school. In addition, this study examined the moderating effects of age and gender on both outcome variables. Surveys were administered to students during normal hours twice during 2000-2001, once at the beginning and again at the end of the school year. Of the 74 surveys included in this study, hierarchical regression revealed that the quality of the mentoring relationship did not accurately predict students' scores on either outcome variable. ANCOVA results revealed that neither age nor gender moderated the relationship between the quality of the mentoring relationship and students' scores on the outcome variables.
Book Synopsis Mentoring Programs That Work by : Jenn Labin
Download or read book Mentoring Programs That Work written by Jenn Labin and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing Benefits, Unique Risks A stellar mentor can change the trajectory of a career. And an enduring mentoring program can become an organization’s most powerful talent development tool. But fixing a “broken” mentoring program or developing a new program from scratch requires a unique process, not a standard training methodology. Over the course of her career, seasoned program development specialist Jenn Labin has encountered dozens of mentoring programs unable to stand the test of their organizations’ natural talent cycles. These programs applied a training methodology to a nontraining solution and were ineffective at best and poorly designed at worst. What’s needed is a solid planning framework developed from hands-on experimentation. And you’ll find it here. Mentoring Programs That Work is framed around Labin’s AXLES model—the first framework devoted to the unique challenges of a sustained learning process. This step-by-step approach will help you navigate the early phases of mentoring program alignment all the way through program launch and measurement. Whether your goal is to recruit and retain Millennials or deepen organizational commitment, it’s time to embrace mentoring as one of the most powerful tools of talent development. Mentoring Programs That Work will help your organization succeed by building mentoring programs that connect people and inspire learning transfer.
Book Synopsis The Cross-Age Mentoring Program (CAMP) for Children with Adolescent Mentors by : Michael Karcher
Download or read book The Cross-Age Mentoring Program (CAMP) for Children with Adolescent Mentors written by Michael Karcher and published by Developmental Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cross-Age Mentoring Program (CAMP) for Children with Adolescent Mentors is a school-based, after-school program designed to provide groups of teenage mentors the structure, guidance, and support needed to effectively mentor younger children. CAMP targets improvements in both the children's (mentees') and the adolescents' (mentors') connectedness to school, teachers, family, peers/friends, and self (where connectedness is defined as positive affect toward and consistent engagement in contexts, relationships and activities). A year-long connectedness curriculum (for 4th-6th grade mentees) targets multiple domains of connectedness with domain-specific activities (e.g., projects involving teachers and parents). Guidelines are presented for staff and experienced mentors to create new activities for subsequent program years or for different youth populations (e.g., for middle school age or health promotion specifically). CAMP is a universal or primary prevention program intended and appropriate for hybrid groups of youth at varying levels of risk for academic, social, or behavioral problems (the ratio of high to low risk mentees should not exceed 1:5). In CAMP youth meet in mentor-mentee dyads within a small group setting (
Book Synopsis The Relationship Between Peer Mentoring Program Participation and Successful Transition to High School by : Ann Devries Stoltz
Download or read book The Relationship Between Peer Mentoring Program Participation and Successful Transition to High School written by Ann Devries Stoltz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cross-Age Mentoring Program (CAMP) for Children with Adolescent Mentors by : Michael Karcher
Download or read book The Cross-Age Mentoring Program (CAMP) for Children with Adolescent Mentors written by Michael Karcher and published by Developmental Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cross-Age Mentoring Program (CAMP) for Children with Adolescent Mentors is a school-based, after-school program designed to provide groups of teenage mentors the structure, guidance, and support needed to effectively mentor younger children. CAMP targets improvements in both the children's (mentees') and the adolescents' (mentors') connectedness to school, teachers, family, peers/friends, and self (where connectedness is defined as positive affect toward and consistent engagement in contexts, relationships and activities). A year-long connectedness curriculum (for 4th-6th grade mentees) targets multiple domains of connectedness with domain-specific activities (e.g., projects involving teachers and parents). Guidelines are presented for staff and experienced mentors to create new activities for subsequent program years or for different youth populations (e.g., for middle school age or health promotion specifically). CAMP is a universal or primary prevention program intended and appropriate for hybrid groups of youth at varying levels of risk for academic, social, or behavioral problems (the ratio of high to low risk mentees should not exceed 1:5). In CAMP youth meet in mentor-mentee dyads within a small group setting (
Book Synopsis Impact of School-based Mentoring Programs on Student Engagement by : Jonathan G Ingraham
Download or read book Impact of School-based Mentoring Programs on Student Engagement written by Jonathan G Ingraham and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At-risk students can fall behind their peers in school and social situations. In addition, without intervention, at-risk students may not transition into adulthood successfully. The purpose of this research is to explore how school-based mentoring programs can impact student engagement. During the 2017-2018 school year, seventeen at-risk students were chosen to participate in pilot mentoring program. Results indicate that participating in a school-based mentoring program has a positive impact on student engagement. Mentoring programs have a low impact on families and can incorporate social and emotional skills. Mentoring programs can also provide students with access to the forty developmental assets. Social and emotional learning and the forty developmental assets are key intervention strategies that can be utilized in the top tier of the multi tiered system of support. The top of this three-tiered pyramid, provides at-risk students individualized support. Students with a higher rate of student engagement will have an increased motivation to progress in their education and participate in school activities. Increased student engagement is positively correlated to an increase in student optimism towards learning, amount of interest towards school and an increase in passion.
Download or read book Stand by Me written by Jean E RHODES and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child at loose ends needs help, and someone steps in--a Big Brother, a Big Sister, a mentor from the growing ranks of volunteers offering their time and guidance to more than two million American adolescents. Does it help? How effective are mentoring programs, and how do they work? Are there pitfalls, and if so, what are they? Such questions, ever more pressing as youth mentoring initiatives expand their reach at a breakneck pace, have occupied Jean Rhodes for more than a decade. In this provocative, thoroughly researched, and lucidly written book, Rhodes offers readers the benefit of the latest findings in this burgeoning field, including those from her own extensive, groundbreaking studies. Outlining a model of youth mentoring that will prove invaluable to the many administrators, caseworkers, volunteers, and researchers who seek reliable information and practical guidance, Stand by Me describes the extraordinary potential that exists in such relationships, and discloses the ways in which nonparent adults are uniquely positioned to encourage adolescent development. Yet the book also exposes a rarely acknowledged risk: unsuccessful mentoring relationships--always a danger when, in a rush to form matches, mentors are dispatched with more enthusiasm than understanding and preparation--can actually harm at-risk youth. Vulnerable children, Rhodes demonstrates, are better left alone than paired with mentors who cannot hold up their end of the relationships. Drawing on work in the fields of psychology and personal relations, Rhodes provides concrete suggestions for improving mentoring programs and creating effective, enduring mentoring relationships with youth.
Book Synopsis The Cross-Age Mentoring Program (CAMP) for Children with Adolescent Mentors by : Michael Karcher
Download or read book The Cross-Age Mentoring Program (CAMP) for Children with Adolescent Mentors written by Michael Karcher and published by Developmental Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Uncovering the Cultural Dynamics in Mentoring Programs and Relationships by : Frances K. Kochan
Download or read book Uncovering the Cultural Dynamics in Mentoring Programs and Relationships written by Frances K. Kochan and published by IAP. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although cultural issues have a powerful influence on the failure and success of mentoring programs and relationships, there is scant research on this area and little in the way of guidelines that practitioners can use to help assure mentoring success. This book seeks to expand our knowledge and understanding of this topic and to foster the use of this information to enhance practice and research. The book is unique in a number of ways and will be an important resource for all those engaged in mentoring endeavors and for those conducting research in this area. First, it presents research findings on the cultural impact of mentoring at the individual relational level, at the organizational level, and within the structures of the society. Secondly, the chapters describe mentoring from an international perspective including programs from Africa, Australia, Canada, Finland, India, Ireland, Korea, Scotland, Sweden and the United States. Third, the book is research based and yet, can be easily applied to practice. Chapters provide information on lessons learned and also include reflective questions to enable the reader to delve more deeply into the constructs and findings in order to apply them to their own practice and research. This makes the book an ideal resource for training mentors and mentees, for designing mentoring programs, for teaching about mentoring, and for establishing and maintaining mentoring relationships. It also will be of value to those who are engaged in conducting research on how to create and maintain successful mentoring relationships and programs. Endorsements All mentoring relationships are diverse. Indeed, it is the difference between mentor and mentee that creates the potential for co-learning. Mentoring that bridges cultural gaps opens the way to an exchange of understanding about both internal and external assumptions and perspectives (how each of us thinks and how the world functions for each of us). In this book, the editors and contributors demonstrate the diversity of diversity, with particular focus on education in different societies. I recommend it as essential background reading for anyone designing mentoring programmes, in which cultural diversity will be a significant dynamic. Dr David Clutterbuck, Special Ambassador, European Mentoring and Coaching Council In this boundary-spanning volume, the authors pull back the curtain on the latest evolution of mentoring theory and practice revealing that all mentoring relationships are intrinsically cultural. Not only that, the researchers present creative, empirically sound ideas for mentoring at different scales—personal encounters, networked communities, and loose collectives. This book is robustly inclusive of structural layers of mentoring differentiated by context—whether higher education, schools, or collegial communities—making meaning of cultural diversity as part of one’s inner core of relational and systematic mentoring. Practitioners of mentoring and researchers of mentoring alike should find this work important for understanding the breadth and depth of mentoring in different cultural contexts while allowing its essence to remain unfolding, rather than simply told. All mentoring professionals can gain insight and value from the diversity of theoretical orientations that capture as well as map the impact of global and cultural influences of mentoring in everyday worlds. A must read for all who care about the quality of educational relationships and about making a difference in learning settings. ~ Dr. Carol A. Mullen, Professor of Educational Leadership, Virginia Tech, University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Plenary Session Representative (PSR)
Book Synopsis Participant Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Two School Based Mentoring Programs for At-risk African American Female High School Students by : Libby Ann Adjei
Download or read book Participant Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Two School Based Mentoring Programs for At-risk African American Female High School Students written by Libby Ann Adjei and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this study was to determine participants' perception of the effectiveness of a mentoring program on at-risk African American at-risk female high school students. Thie qualitative study relied on a phenomenological research approach utilizing respondents' interviews and focus group data. The one-on-one interviews were analyzed using McMillian and Schumacher's (2001) methodology. The four patterns that emerged: (1) impact of WOD on peer relations, (2) impact of WOD student achievement, (3) impact of WOD on religious beliefs, and (4) impact of WOD on school connectedness. The focused group data was analyzed using Northcutt and McCoy's (2004) methodology. The critical core affinities were: (1) effect of shared stories, (3) impact of bonding on WOD members, and (3) impact of relationship building on WOD members.
