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Mentor
Mentorship is professional relationship established between two people, where a more experienced person guides less experienced person through the subject where professional development is desired. Mentor is active facilitator who creates and maintains a supportive climate that promotes the condition necessary for learning to take place.
- Most of the students who take admission in our polytechnic come from rural and semi-urban areas. They have certain individual problems, needs and at the same time ambitious to achieve their goals. They come from different cultures, different economic and social backgrounds.
- They are in a sudden phase of entering into diploma level institute from school level. It is a stage where a lot of changes occur among students either physically or psychologically.
- Therefore, it is necessary that there must be someone who can understand and encourage them to acclimatize to the new environment.
- Some students feel inferior when they compare themselves with other students.
- They need some morale and psychosocial support to boost up their confidence in the new environment so that they can excel in their studies.
Key Mentoring skills include –
- Listening actively
- Building Trust
- Determining Goals & Building Capacity
- Encouraging & Inspiring
Our Polytechnic has adopted a mentoring system that takes care of the various issues related to students and improves their academic performance, develops their personality and helps them to tackle hurdles in their day to day curricular/co-curricular activities etc.
Purpose of Mentoring:
- To enhance the psychological maturity of the students
- To explore their potential and harness it for their development
- To make choices for the career and explore specific opportunities
- To improve the self-confidence of students by motivating them about their strengths and how they can convert them into opportunities
- In all the mentoring process involves helping, exploring self, education about life, guiding, influencing career, problem-solving, motivation and social behaviour.
