Mendaki has started a mentoring programme for students who lack support at home, as it sharpens the focus of its education programmes.
The Malay Muslim self help group identified 150 Secondary One students for the pilot programme, which kicked off at four of its 51 Mendaki tuition scheme centres last month. The aim is to ensure the students have an adult to turn to.
For a start, mentors will be assigned to those students who may not have home support or role models at home. The idea is to engage them beyond the classroom - bring them out for food, games, chit chat sessions, so that they can motivate them to do better. They have have other challenges that may impinge on their ability to study better.
Thoughts:
- Actually, I think schools need this, or might have been doing this. Would it be a duplicate effort?
- The mentors must be someone who is always there for the student, rather than a set key performance index (KPI) of meeting X times per month. I've heard of mentoring programmes that work on a KPI model and this does not, in my view, does justice to the child as the service provider would only be interested in meeting the bare minimum requirements.
Thoughts anyone?
Yours,
Something Small Thinking Big
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