Campus Kids Mentoring Program: Fifteen Years of Success

Autor/in	Shepard, Jerri
Titel	Campus Kids Mentoring Program: Fifteen Years of Success
Quelle	In: Reclaiming Children and Youth, 18 (2009) 3, S.38-43 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1089-5701
Schlagwörter	Elementary School Students; Undergraduate Students; Mentors; Best Practices; Program Descriptions; Program Effectiveness; At Risk Students; After School Programs; Child Development; Intergenerational Programs; Tutorial Programs; Learning Activities; Social Justice; College School Cooperation; School Community Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? After school education; After-school programs; Program; Programs; Programme; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; Programm; Kindesentwicklung; Tutorial programmes; Förderprogramm; Lernprogramm; Tutorensystem; Lernaktivität; Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Abstract	This article features Campus Kids, a mentoring program located at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Gonzaga is a Jesuit University with a strong commitment to social justice and humanistic education. Campus Kids began, in the true sense of a community partnership, as an attempt to connect community resources (potential university undergraduate student role models) with community needs (elementary school students from nearby elementary schools considered at risk for academic failure). The goals of the program are to improve outcomes for 4th-6th grade students considered academically at risk by improving attendance and school performance, reducing the number of discipline problems, improving self-esteem, and increasing school engagement. These students are matched with undergraduate college students for weekly tutoring and planned activities on the college campus. Pairing youth at risk for academic failure with college students as mentors results in improved attendance and school performance for youth as well as a deeper understanding of poverty and social injustice and an increased sense of responsibility and commitment to action for college mentors. Campus Kids Mentoring Program offers an excellent example of best practices in mentoring, as noted in Elements of Effective Practice (MENTOR, 2003). These practices include Program Design and Planning, Program Management, Program Operations, and Program Evaluation. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10