The Mentorship Program
The Class of 2020 is now accepting Mentee & Mentor applications
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Mission
The Mentorship Program works to improve career, college, and military service readiness skills for high school seniors transitioning into these settings by supporting their academic achievement, self-esteem, and social competence.
The Mentorship Program offers experience, guidance, and wisdom from role models who demonstrate educational and professional successes.
The Mentorship Program offers experience, guidance, and wisdom from role models who demonstrate educational and professional successes.
Program Goals
The Mentorship Program is designed to assist graduating seniors in developing their character and social responsibilities and to assist them in their transition from high school to career, college, and military service.
Mentors play an essential role in this process by providing the following:
Mentors play an essential role in this process by providing the following:
- Encouragement and support in striving for academic and professional excellence;
- Development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for successful completion of academic and professional goals;
- Motivation to develop supportive relationships with peers, faculty, and staff personnel;
- Positive relationships which promote and enhance Mentee self-confidence;
- Development of leadership skills;
- Identification of appropriate professional resources
- Formulating plans, goals, and strategies for personal and professional goals; and
- Networking in today’s society.
What is Mentorship?
Mentoring is a trusting relationship that brings you and your Mentees together by offering guidance, support, and encouragement aimed at developing their competence and character.
You and your Mentees should spend time getting to know each other, have fun together, build trust, and work toward your Mentees self-identified goals.
You and your Mentees should spend time getting to know each other, have fun together, build trust, and work toward your Mentees self-identified goals.
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Students who receive quality mentoring are more likely to set higher goals and achieve at higher levels, and...
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Why Mentorship is Necessary
Many students lack caring and consistent relationships with adults in their lives. They may not have anyone there to show them just how capable and competent they are. Without this type of support, students may struggle and have difficulty living up to their full potential.
Students who meet regularly with their mentors are:
Students who meet regularly with their mentors are:
- 52% less likely than their peers to skip a day of school
- 37% less likely to skip a class
Mentoring relationships have been linked to a number of positive benefits in students.
These include improvements in:
These benefits are attained by building relationship over time and making sure that you are getting to know the needs, interests, strengths, and challenges of your students while ensuring that your students are benefitting from your mentoring activities.
These include improvements in:
- Mental Health
- Social & Emotional Well-Being
- Education & Grades
- Improved Relationships with Parents & Peers
These benefits are attained by building relationship over time and making sure that you are getting to know the needs, interests, strengths, and challenges of your students while ensuring that your students are benefitting from your mentoring activities.
The Role of a Mentor
I am a Mentor. This is what I will do:
- Focus primarily on developing a relationship with my Mentees by talking and exchanging thoughts and ideas
- Measure success by improvements in non-academic areas such as relationships and emotional well-being as well as improvements in grades
- Develop a plan about how to actively and effectively spend Mentor/Mentee time together - this can include GroupMe messages, emails, and personal time. Fun is KEY!
- Serve as a role model
- Encourage and support my Mentees to strive for academic and professional success
- Guide my Mentee in the formation of attainable goals, plans, and strategies for professional and personal development
- Help my Mentees learn how to acquire the skills of successful networking in today’s society
- Help my Mentee identify and obtain appropriate professional resources
- Commit to regular meetings with my Mentees (once a month is a requirement)
- Accept responsibility, along with my Mentees, for creating a healthy mentoring relationship
- Focus only on skill acquisition
- Measure success by improvements in academic areas only
- Determine the structure of learning sessions
- Scaffold student growth based on "next level" instruction
Our mentors are role models and professional leaders who will further develop the competencies and interpersonal skills of our young people. One of our goals is to build a lasting professional and personal network.
The benefits of quality mentoring are many:
- Enhanced Confidence
- Individualized Recognition
- Encouragement
- Advice on Balancing Academic & Professional Responsibilities + Personal Goals
- Access to a Support System During Critical Stages in their Academic and Career Development
- Exposure to Diverse Perspectives and Experiences
Our mentors benefit as well. While supporting and fostering our young people:
Our mentors benefit as well. While supporting and fostering our young people:
- We Learn about the Emerging Talent Pool
- We Build Lasting Career Networks
- We Enhance our Coaching, Leadership, Management, & Recruiting Skills
- We work to guide our emerging professionals on their path to discovering their full potential!
TMP Mentor Guide
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Events & Workshops
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Mentorship Benefit tickets ($50/person) can be purchased online:
Districts, Campuses, and Sponsors can Mail ticket payments to:
Make check payable to:
RSEPSF
1605 George Dieter #582
El Paso, Texas 79936
RSEPSF is a 501(c)3 ~ Donations are tax deductible
TMP Class of 2020 Scholarship Opportunities
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College & University Scholarships
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Career Track & Military Service
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Special Programs
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What are My Responsibilities as a Mentor?
- Mentors are expected to maintain regular communication with their mentees.
- Weekly messages ~ at least once per week; Example: a GroupMe text
- Monthly meetings ~ at least once each month; Examples: Lunch at their campus or Starbucks for coffee
- Be creative :-)
- Mentors will complete three interactive Google surveys with each mentee.
Mentors will be provided with all materials and resources necessary to support mentees.
The Rural Schools Education Program & Scholarship Foundation welcomes all students,
families, community members, and organizations, regardless of income,
political views, religious affiliations and/or backgrounds.
RSEPSF welcomes humans of all ages, races, physical abilities, sexual preferences,
gender expressions, and gender identities.
