Week 4

Week 4

This week, we had 2 new students sign up for our mentorship program. We now have 4 students all together. We helped our first student to study for her upcoming science test about the states of matter. We spent about 30 minutes with her. She didn’t need a whole lot of help, for she had already organized a study guide, but we helped her review some terms and questions and asked her to explain some basic information.
We have been keeping contact with the other students that have signed up. We discuss if there are any specific topics or tasks that they need help with and arrange times to meet.

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Week 3!

             This week we had 2 girls sign up! We are planning on talking with them to find out what they need help with and what day they want to meet with us. Since the girls are friends we are thinking of  meeting with both of them so that they will have a friend with them. So we will meet in the library at lunch hour one day next week.

If we don’t have anymore kids signed up by next, we are planning on giving a short presentation to the grade 7 and 8 classes to explain what we are doing and how they can sign up.

Megan, Femke, and Emily

Week 2!

Week 2

Throughout this upcoming week, which happens to be the second week for our mentorship program, our goal is to get plenty of work accomplished and get our program up and running.

Today, our group has completed little advertisements with a section to sign up. We have hung these bright posters up around the school in hopes to catch the attention of the students. Along with our advertisements, we came up with the idea to email a couple of teachers for student recommendations.
In our email, we described our program and our purpose. We explained that we would really appreciate recommendations, and that nobody will be forced into this program.
Once we have caught the attention of a couple students, which is one of our goals at the moment, we will meet with them and find times to accommodate the both of us!
It would be great if we could meet with a couple of students by the end of this week to start planning our sessions with them!

Our First Week!

     Hi, we are Megan, Femke, and Emily, and this is our first blog for our 20time project! 

     For our 20time project, we aspired to choose an idea that was unique, and something that each and every one of us felt passionately about. This lead to the idea of a mentorship program, a program that would provide extra support to any students who may face challenges with their studies or homework. We thought, If we are already opening a door to these students for school purposes, why don’t we make this a place where all the students can feel safe to join us, even if their sole purpose is not for homework? Not all problems that students encounter are associated with their classes, some students may be struggling to fit in, or to feel accepted in the school’s environment. All three of us have been through that. We can be a friend to them, let them know that they are welcome to talk to us, and that they are not alone in this school. Our overall goal is to help the students to develop the confidence, self-esteem and skills they need to be successful in school and life, typically at school.

    In order to see if we are making progress and being successful, we will have to evaluate with the help of the students. Our plan is to take polls from them and provide them with the opportunity to give us feedback. Our goal in our first week was to develop a more substantial plan for our idea. Each week, we don’t have a set number of people that we expect to show up, but we do have a goal to have at least a couple students attend by the end of the week. The beginning is expected to be slow. Our polls and surveys will be taken once a month to monitor our progress. As for this week, we have expanded on our idea and made sign up sheets that we will hang around the school. We have found the time to talk as a group and compile our suggestions. To kick off our mentorship program, we have began to orally spread the word. It is very helpful because, out of our group of three, two of us have siblings who are students at this school. We have encouraged them to participate in our program and do the same with their friends! Our intent, however, is not to force anyone into joining. This program is 100% optional.

     We have started our website using the app weebly, which has been overall easy to use. We are working on putting pictures and a description of us on the website so that students and parents get an idea of who we are. We also started an email for our program and included our email address in the website under “Contact us”.We would like to encourage teachers and parents to contact us and tell us what the students are struggling with and what they need to work on. If we have trouble finding students, we are planning on talking to teachers to see if they have anyone they would like to recommend. But we will not force anyone, it will be their choice to join.

If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to contact us though our email.

Thanks, 
Emily, Megan, and Femke.