Sanchez Elementary School-Online Mentoring Guidelines and Activities

Sanchez Elementary School Online Mentoring Program

Online Mentoring Guidelines and Activities

When you have completed the Application for Online Mentors, and if you are accepted into the program, you will be directed to complete this *brief* summary about you that potential protegés will view about you (you cannot view this document until you have been approved as an online mentor).

Who are These Kids?

Tips for Online Mentors
How to get started, how to introduce yourself, things to keep in mind during exchanges with your protegé, where to go for assistance as part of your program participation, how to handle crisis situations, and other information.

Online Culture
What's it like to communicate solely or mostly via e-mail?

Online Activity Ideas for Mentors and Protegés
More than 50 suggestions of activities you and your protegé can do together online.

Gift Policy
Dos and don'ts regarding sending items to your protegé.

Mentor Whiz Quiz
This in-depth, interactive training vehicle (that is NOT on our web site) that places you in a variety of situations that may arise during the course of a mentoring relationship, and provides instant feedback. It's a tool by the National Mentor Partnership, and while it's focused on face-to-face mentoring with older children, many of the situations may come up in your online experiences, such as:

Jump starting your mentee's interests
Discouraging your mentee from using foul language
What to do when your mentee is telling outlandish stories
Dealing with prejudice
What to do when your mentee may be dieting inappropriately
Dealing with your mentee when he is suspended from school
Drawing out your mentee's goals
Recognizing your mentee's great report card
Managing your expectations about your mentee's academic aspirations
Determining if you are making a difference

V E R S I O N: December 15, 2000

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Permission is granted to quote from this web site so long as the author and web site are noted.
Please notify me if you intend to use these materials or to quote me. You don't have to, but it would be appreciated.

This resource was developed by Jayne Cravens for Sanchez Elementary School in Austin, Texas;
the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin; and the Virtual Volunteering Project.
This online mentoring program is no longer operational; these web materials have been preserved to help other schools develop their own online mentoring programs. You can find more online mentoring resources here