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Pass It On Student Mentoring Program
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All students interested in participating in a PIO Student Mentoring Program are asked to pick one subject in which they can mentor a younger student. Could it be with math? Reading? At the same time, students will state in which area they would like to be mentored by an older student. |
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Mentors and Proteges are then matched up with students and corporate sponsors. Many students will participate as mentors as well as mentees.
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We are anticipating the Pass It On Student Mentoring Program to launch in September of 2009 in elementary schools, middle schools and high schools.
What we have found is that when you match up students where one excels and the other needs help, although they are only one year apart in a certain grade, they my be two or three years apart in a certain subject.
"There have always been three groups of popular kids in school - It seems that if you are smart, athletic or good looking you may be one of those popular kids. However, I believe we can create a fourth group of popular kids and that is a group of cool kids that are performing acts of kindness, and are accepting of others."
"When we start nominating these students for mentoring awards and humanitarian awards, and giving them strokes, I believe they will do more acts of kindness and it will be cool to be accepting of others." Arlan Berglas
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The Pass It On (PIO) Student Mentoring Program helps empower students to realize that they can make a positive difference in others lives.
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At each session the mentors and the proteges may play a board game, card game, crossword puzzle games, acting out games, truth or dare games, challenge games all steered towards acts of kindness, building character values and passing it on. See The Pass It On Mentoring Connection. Each mentor/protege session will help increase each others self esteem. Game
Additionally, the mentors and the proteges will each have a workbook with fun exercises designed to help build confidence.
In an after-school setting, we anticipate the first hour from 3:00 - 4:00 pm will be a combination of helping with homework, playing the Mentoring Connection Game and playing other games to help build each others confidence while working in their workbooks.
The 2nd hour from 4:00 - 5:00 pm will be a time when all of the mentors and mentees in a classroom will get together for a group presentation and fun exercises pertaining to that weeks theme.
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Both the mentor and the proteges self esteem will be enhanced at each session. This will result in an increase in attendance, higher test scores, and lower the disciplinary problems within the school. Participants communication skills have proven since 1989 to build charater and self confidence to last a lifetime. See game workbook.
To play the Mentoring Connection Game, players spin a spinner that they made together. The base of the spinner will have a picture of the mentor and protege. As they move around the board they answer questions in one of five categories. To see questions from the Mentoring Connection Game.
We are now in the process of putting together a Pass It On team that is on this level of cosmic consciousness from all over the world that wants to be part of the Pass It On Movement. If you would like to be a Volunteer Regional Director please contact
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The power of praise through mentoring has been scientifically documented to help children achieve more than they had believed, providing motivation for them to reach their goals when they thought the task impossible. With children, it is imperative to praise the effort to encourage them to try harder.
Praise is equally important in adults, but the use of praise to motivate others becomes more complicated. Catherine the Great said, “I praise loudly, I blame softly.” She was a wise woman who understood much about the human spirit, but, as with many things, there are also exceptions to the rule.
In some cases, praise has its greatest effect when it is delivered by a highly critical person. When someone has a predisposition to criticize and is difficult to please, praise can seem like an unattainable goal.
On the other hand, those who deliver praise vocally and regularly often can provide the greatest motivation by withholding it. In instances such as these, the silence screams volumes. Mentoring
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