Your Work as a Mentor
Your Work as a Mentor
Develop Customised School-based Mentorship Program
You and your partner Mentor will collaborate with key school staff members of the assigned Partner School to deliver a 2-year Mentoring and Education Support Program. You will work a Program Mentor in the assigned school from Monday to Thursday to serve the disadvantaged youth via a 3-Tier Mentoring Model.
Your normal working day split between:
Tier 1: Individual Mentoring
- Conduct One-on-one Mentoring with Target Students
- Each Program Mentor will target 10 students from the targeted form to provide one-on-one guidance to students through Structured Mentorship.
- Mentors will daily engage with students in class and out-of-class. They shall identify those with most needs to offer personalised mentoring by applying the skills learnt.
Card-sorting exercise with Mentees
Celebrate success with Mentees
Personalised support and care
Tier 2: Small Group Learning Support
- Collaborate with Teachers in Small Group Learning Support
- Program Mentors will collaborate with teachers to design and organise to group mentoring and learning activities inside & outside classrooms.
- For example, our Mentors co-taught the S2 and S4 Career Life Education lessons with teachers and integrate mentoring elements it the curriculum. Also, our Mentors organised lunch-time Movie Club to enhance students’ interest in learning English.
Small group learning activities
Out-of-class activities to connect daily life
Gamify the classroom
Tier 3: Campus-wide Activities
- Initiate Your Own Campus-wide Activities Ideas
- Program Mentors of each school will initiate and design the following three types of activities:
- Our Flagship Dream Pursuing Project: organise school-based workshops and experiential activities on self-understanding, exploring strengths, goal setting, and career exposure.
- Student Exposure Program with corporate partners: partner with corporate like UBS and PwC to organise activities, like internal Pen Pal Program and firm visit to expand students’ exposure.
- Your Own Mentoring Project Ideas: Pilot projects that help enhance students’ motivation and self-esteem. Previous projects example: Board Game Fun Day, School Reporter and Failure Museum.
Dream Pursuing Project
Career Sharing at UBS
Board Game Fun Day to train student leaders
A Sample Program Mentor’s Weekly Schedule
One Day with Mentor
Why Mentorship?
TUF’s frontline experience in the past decade confirms that with a Mentor’s regular presence to build a purposeful, non-judgemental and trusting relationship, young people respond readily to their guidance and support. They also look up to mentors as role models and try to emulate them, making them effective change agents to instil positive values in young people and help them aspire to a better future.
Mentorship vs Teaching?
Mentorship is different from teaching in that the focus of teaching is mainly to impart knowledge through instruction and explanation. Instead of helping students learn content, mentorship uses a purposeful, one-on-one relationship to improve self-esteem, learning motivation, and learning attitude.
Check out the sharing from our Mentors and Mentees
Sharing from our Alumni Kevin and Tim and their Mentees
Sharing from Mentees of Kiangsu-Chekiang College (Kwai Chung) and Mentor Janet
Sharing from Mentees of Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School and Mentor Tiffany
Discover more on our training and support for Mentors. Read more →
Learn more about alumni hood. Read more →
Have Questions? Talk to our Program Manager!
Is this Program right for you? Schedule a call with Program Manager (Talent Management) or register for our Career Talk. You will learn more about your program experience, post-program development, and practical application tips.
