As you are all excited to visit your Sitara, you may cover the following areas when you meet them:
• Understand the academic strengths and areas of improvement of the Sitara. Use the observations from the earlier mentors as a guide.
• Depending on their standard, each Sitara appears for different competitive exam. Encourage and guide the Sitara to appear for these exams.
• Help the Sitara to develop effective study habits and time management as a preparation for studies in higher classes.
• The mentor can help improve the Sitara’s performance and should interact with other stakeholders like parents, school teachers, tuition teachers (if any), to monitor and improve Sitara’s performance.
• Encourage the Sitara to participate in extra-curricular activities and contests and help him/her in the same.
• Work on areas of etiquette and grooming, presentation, and effective communication.
• Help broaden the Sitara’s horizon through exposure to various issues like current affairs, environmental awareness, animal life etc.
• Focus on increasing the English vocabulary of the child and use the dictionary for the same & read stories to the child.
• The mentor should use the material provided to Sitaras like cursive handwriting books, Atlas, Dictionary etc. to develop the child’s competence in his/her learning in school.
Some dos and don’ts to remember:
• Mentoring should be done only at the mentee’s residence.
• On campus mentoring is strictly prohibited.
• Mentoring should happen only in the presence of the mentee’s mother.
• Prepare an agenda of the visit based on the roadmap planned.
• You are required to record your every visit in the online diary.
• Update visit log as soon as the mentoring has been done.
• Understand your mentee and learn about his/her talents, strengths, and their expectations from the mentoring process. Discuss your experiences with your faculty facilitator.