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How can mentoring be a support for schools
Mariana Andrei - Communication Coordinator
5 January 2015
Although multinational companies worldwide already apply mentoring and coaching programmes successfully, such programmes are relatively new in the European educational system.
For migrant children, who have difficulties keeping up with their colleagues in the classroom, mentoring could offer specific customized support for school success. The mentors acting as models and taking the role of an elderly brother may help improve cognitive capacities, self-esteem, and positive effects are visible in any area of the child's life.
,,Mentoring: What Can Support Projects Achieve That Schools Cannot?” is a paper within a series produced by the SIRIUS network in collaboration with Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Europe. Mentoring may motivate children more deeply and more personally than the education system does in a classroom. In addition mentors can also address emotional, cognitive, social issues, can reach out to the parents more easily than teachers can, given the school environment restrictions. The power of mentors lies in their ability to push students to become agents of their own educational trajectories.
This short study explores the way how European decision factors may design mentoring, as well as other educational support projects, as an integral part of education, and explains why it is important to do this. The study also gives examples of successful mentoring, focused on cultivating talents and potential of migrant children. Finally, the paper summarizes current research on the benefits of mentoring and offers recommendations for mentoring program development and for decision makers at the EU level. The project is co-funded by the European Union.
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/mentoring-what-can-support-projects-achieve-schools-cannot
For migrant children, who have difficulties keeping up with their colleagues in the classroom, mentoring could offer specific customized support for school success. The mentors acting as models and taking the role of an elderly brother may help improve cognitive capacities, self-esteem, and positive effects are visible in any area of the child's life.
,,Mentoring: What Can Support Projects Achieve That Schools Cannot?” is a paper within a series produced by the SIRIUS network in collaboration with Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Europe. Mentoring may motivate children more deeply and more personally than the education system does in a classroom. In addition mentors can also address emotional, cognitive, social issues, can reach out to the parents more easily than teachers can, given the school environment restrictions. The power of mentors lies in their ability to push students to become agents of their own educational trajectories.
This short study explores the way how European decision factors may design mentoring, as well as other educational support projects, as an integral part of education, and explains why it is important to do this. The study also gives examples of successful mentoring, focused on cultivating talents and potential of migrant children. Finally, the paper summarizes current research on the benefits of mentoring and offers recommendations for mentoring program development and for decision makers at the EU level. The project is co-funded by the European Union.
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/mentoring-what-can-support-projects-achieve-schools-cannot
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