1. PEER MENTORS SUCCESSFUL TEAMWORK
CELEBIJE ALIJA, AARON GREGORY, JO ANN ROETTGEN, BUDDY UGWUMBA
4 minutes
On this slide we will introduce ourselves and briefly state what we tutor and/or academic plans. We will then briefly outline the plan for the presentation. Celebije, Jo, Aaron, and Buddy
Total presentation 60 minutes
Activities Minutes
Q & A Minutes
Wrap-up 5 Minutes
Active presentation time 30 Minutes
Name, area you tutor, transfer goals, etc. 1 minute each

2. WHAT IS A MENTOR? WHAT WORDS DO YOU USE TO DESCRIBE A MENTOR?
WHAT QUALITIES ARE NECESSARY FOR A MENTOR?
5-7 minutes
Celebije and Aaron
This is an activity where participants will discuss words or characteristics of a mentor. This will take approximately 5-7 minutes

3. Some words that describe a mentor
Leader
Good listener
Supportive
Understanding
Encouraging
Bridge
1 minute Jo
Some words commonly associated with mentors. A mentor can serve various roles. Overall, mentors are leaders which require them to be a good listener so they can be supportive, understanding, and encouraging to mentees. Overall, a mentor serves as a sort of bridge between students and resources.

4. PEER MENTORS AND STUDENT SUCCESS
Provide tips for student success
Provide professional resources
Support social and academic goals
Increase attendance and retention
Motivate students
4 minutes
Aaron
The ultimate goal of a tutor mentor program is to help increase student success. Various research already indicates that mentors significantly improve student success in many ways. Peer mentors assist students success first by offering tips and tricks. These tips can be as simple as organizing notes and as vital as where to find financial aid resources. This practical advice often goes beyond the traditional orientation that provides basic rules and such. Tutor mentors also provide tips to help improve the tutor’s success. Some of these tips include how to manage time, addressing challenging students, or difficult material. Resources are important for student success and for tutor success. Handouts, connections to other people and resources, websites, you name it. Nobody goes into anything knowing everything. Mentors help with access to the plethora of resources. Mentors also help support social and academic goals. Mentors and mentees communicate frequently. This interaction helps improve communication skills, increase social competence, develop confidence and encourages students to reach those academic goals. Important in achieving those goals is attendance. Recent research published in the journal of Social and Behavioral Science indicates that students who attend and participate in educational opportunities such as class significantly increase their overall performance. If these students are successful in their classes, the rate of retention will also increase. If students are retained they are far more likely to reach their overall goals. Students who feel connected to their institution through programs such as mentor programs are more likely to attend. This connection, as reported in the ASHE Higher Education Report, is one of the most significant factors to predict attendance, retention, and overall success. Mentors help ensure that there is always a connection with the students.

5. PEER MENTORS THROUGHOUT THE COLLEGE
Help students succeed in their academics
Build confidence
Support system
Build relationships
3 minutes
Buddy

6. CHOOSING MENTORS Choose from your peer tutors Multidisciplinary tutors
Tutors proven to be responsible
Tutors who show leadership
3 minutes
Aaron and Buddy
Peer mentors can be valuable to the LRC if it is implemented properly. Tutor mentors need to be chosen from current peer tutors. Bringing in mentors from outside the LRC may alienate many of the peer tutors and these tutors may feel that these mentors cannot really understand because they do not understand the LRC.

7. Recruiting Tutor Mentors
Ability and willingness to lead others
Assist with conducting workshops
Provided with expectations and responsibilities
Collaboration
Mentors, LRC coordinators, TSS, etc.
Offered guaranteed hours Jo
At Mt. San Jacinto College, an is sent to potential tutor mentors near the end of the spring semester. Mentors are asked to serve as a mentor for one academic year starting in summer. According to guidelines, student workers may work no more than 20 hours per week. All tutor mentors are offered a full 20 hours. In addition, these mentors are provided with a list of expectations including attending and help lead each orientation, one for each semester, as well as each tutor training meeting. At MSJC, mandatory tutor training meetings are held monthly with 4 meetings and one orientation held each semester. Mentors will work collaboratively with previous mentors, co-mentors, LRC coordinators and the TSS. Because the mentor serves as a leader for other tutors, mentors must have a willingness to lead in some capacity. Not all mentors are required to be born leaders. That can be taught. The willingness is important. The MSJC LRC conducts math and writing workshops throughout the semester. Mentors assist and conduct some of these workshops as part of the mentor duties. When LRC administration reaches out to potential mentors, all of this is laid out so that the potential mentor can make an educated decision about taking on the role of MENTOR

8. INTRODUCING PEER MENTORS IN THE LRC
Choose from your peer tutors
Create a plan
Outline requirements
Establish goals
Collaboration
4 minutes
Jo and Celebije
When introducing mentors to the LRC, it is important to make sure that the mentors that are chosen come from the current tutors. There needs to be a clear plan outlining requirements and expectations of the program. The reality is that these will change for any number of reasons. However, having some specific goals will help guide the program. The introduction of peer mentors to the LRC is a collaborative endeavor between LRC administration, LRC support staff, and mentors.

9. IMPACT OF PEER MENTORS ON PEER TUTORS
Help tutors to improve
Guidance to the tutors
Help tutors succeed as a tutor
Provide a resource for peer tutors
3 minutes
Aaron and Buddy

10. IMPACT OF PEER MENTORS IN LEARNING CENTER
Ask questions
Support
Guidance
3 Minutes
Aaron and Buddy
Peer mentors in the LRC support the LRC in many ways. Tutors may feel intimidated asking administrators questions. However, having mentors encourages these questions and increases the likelihood that a tutor will ask a questions rather than just try to figure it out and get it wrong. The peer mentors also act as support for both the mentees and administration of the LRC. mentors help guide the mentees by providing answers to questions and suggestions to different situations. Mentors also support the administration of the LRC by working closely with the tutors and serving as a big of a go between for tutors and administrators. The administrators may not always have direct contact with every single tutor except during training. The mentors can help advise tutors or expectations of administrators and advise administrators of concerns of the tutors. The mentors also help facilitate tutor training and create resources to help tutors and students. This then allows the administrators to focus on other tasks essential for the LRC.

11. Impact of being a mentor on mentors
Learn and practice leadership skills
Build professional communication skills
Skill reinforcement
Increase confidence
Enhance resume and professional attractiveness
3.5 minutes
Being a mentor feels great. A mentor is helping others. However, the impact of being a mentor is not restricted to the mentee or the LRC. The mentor is able to learn valuable leadership skills that can immediately be put into practice. Professional communication skills are necessary regardless of professional goals. These skills are valuable to the mentor/mentee relationship as well. Mentors have the opportunity to reinforce skills learned in the classroom while helping mentees improve their skills. The increase in leadership may also boost the mento’s confidence. We cannot deny the impact being a mentor has on one’s resume and attractiveness to potential employers. Mentors learn and use specific skills that are vital in most businesses.
Celebije and Jo

12. Making Peer Mentors Viable
Increase communication between LRC staff and mentors
Encourage communication between mentor and mentee
Encourage engagement
Build empowerment
Recruitment
Consistent training
3.5 minutes Jo
The goal of nearly any program is to make it viable. Not all programs last. Sometimes because they were not meant to and sometimes because the creation and execution did not take enough to make it strong and viable. In order to make Peer Tutor Program viable encouraging communication between the mentors and the mentees is vital. Encourage engagement between mentors and mentees which then leads to greater empowerment of the mentees. By establishing specific goals for the program and actively recruiting ahead of any turnover helps ensure that decisions are made in a timely, well thought out manner. Training for mentors may not look like other training, but consistent training and interaction between mentors and administration help ensure that goals are met or adjusted as necessary and that everyone remains on task.

13. PEER MENTOR: Q & A
What questions do you have about anything we discussed?
5 minutes
Time for the participants to ask any any questions they have at this time Minutes
Celebije, Jo, Aaron, Buddy

14. DEVELOPING PEER MENTORS: ACTIVITY
CREATING THE PERFECT MENTOR
10 minutes-15 minutes (Variable depending on time)
Butcher paper. Crayons. Similar to the perfect tutor activity. Participants will create the perfect mentor then discuss what they created. Work in pairs or teams depending on the number of participants. This activity will be minutes
Jo and Buddy

15. WRAPPING IT UP
5 minutes
Recap what we covered, what was important, etc. Final questions. Final comments. 5 minutes
Aaron, Buddy, Celebije, Jo