HSC mentors (2 Viewers)

[*girl04*]

Hey just wondering if your school had a mentoring program? if so is it good? how does it work?
thanks!@

 

[hipsta_jess]

we had a mentoring program if we wanted to participate

"10% on top"

1 student per teacher

 

[miss_pie]

what is a mentoring program??

 

[gordo]

where you get a persoanl mentor to help you with you subjects
like a tutor but a nicer word

personally i think its cheating and hate when all my friends say they have mentor for all their subjects one each day after school and on weekends.

but hey you can pay to get through life,
or
you can have that really good feeling when you acomplish something yourself

 

[MiuMiu]

Yes I had a mentor, it was basically a personal year advisor for when you're in year 12.

And no Gordo, a mentor is not a tutor, get ur facts straight before you go calling everyone here bludgers.

 

[krayziekarnevil]

Using a tutor is not bludging or cheating... its not like they do your exams for you

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by krayziekarnevil
Using a tutor is not bludging or cheating... its not like they do your exams for you

yeah, coz even if u go to tutors- u still have to do their work in order to go good.

 

[greeninsanity]

yeah, we have a mentoring program. it's one-on-one with a teacher and they focus on things like study skills, time management etc. they try very hard to get people to 'graduate' from the program, so you have to either improve your marks, or get all overdue homework handed in or something like that.
it's quite good, when they approached people to be on the program you could refuse but i don't think anyone did. it's just another push to work harder...

 

[santaslayer]

mentors were counsellers at our skool......lol

 

[Skillo]

I have a mentor. It's an optional program at our school for year 12s. My mentor is my shrink, at least that how I like to think about it. He's known me for years and is the best person in the entire world to seek advice from. Also it helps if they're an english teacher cause then they can help with Drama, English and History. If you're school offers the program and you're on good terms with a teacher...do it.

I'd hate to think what I'd be like without my mentor...probably even more insane.

 

[mic]

we had a mentoring program, mainly for ppl who were perhaps struggling a bit. but anyone could get a mentor if they wanted to.

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by SpoRTsGaL
1:1 ratio? cos i dont think we would have 160 teachers at our school.

no he said that "each student got assigned to a teacher", that doesn't mean 1:1 ratio at all!

 

[iambored]

no none for me

 

[aud]

Never heard of them... only thing like that I've heard of is EE2 Mentors... but they're a different breed...

We do have 'programs' though - for naughty people that don't do their work

 

[mazza_728]

at our school teachers volunteer for the mentor program and each student puts down their choice, one mentor per person and u normally get ur first or second choice, if u want u can share mentors but its normally at diff times like there's no kinda group.

 

[*girl04*]

yeah i think our mentor program is like mazza said above. teachers volunteer and the students select a mentor.

 

[babygoose!]

Originally posted by mazza_728
at our school teachers volunteer for the mentor program and each student puts down their choice, one mentor per person and u normally get ur first or second choice, if u want u can share mentors but its normally at diff times like there's no kinda group.

yeh ours is the same except we call them our '10% on top' teacher and we dont have to participate if we dont want to

 

[miss_pie]

yeah same. teachers volunteer, but we put any teacher we want and the organiser askes them if they're willing. i put in my form 2day
for those of you that have it, do u use it for general study stuff or do u go to a teacher of a specific subject (say a maths teacher) and get help in that subject?

 

[ameh]

pymble ladies and other private schools have private mentoring, tutoring, everything one on one...

 

[t-i-m-m-y]

yeah i mentored myself lol

i remember in year 5 and 6 i had a mentor