E-mentoring in the Community
When should an e-mentoring programme be used?
E-mentoring can be implemented at various stages of school life, but the student must have communication skills sufficient to be able to successfully support an e-mentoring programme. The student must be able to maintain a conversation and understand instructions.
E-mentoring can be particularly effective when used to support the transition process from primary to secondary school. This application of mentoring uses peer group mentors that have recently been through the process of changing schools themselves and can help and support others through the same process.
Mentoring can also be used to specifically support any Gifted and Talented programmes that are going on in school. These students can be e-mentored by adults that can give them specific advice and guidance to encourage them to meet their full potential.
From Year 9 onwards students need advice and guidance about all sorts of things from career to which options to take. Who better to advise them than someone already working in the job that the students wants to do when they leave school.
