Mentor And Mentee Committee

Objectives

• To guide and encourage mentee to explore and succeed in their academic progress and achieve realistic goals.
• To undertake academic and career counselling tasks for their career objectives.
• To attend and solve socio-economic, emotional and behavioural related issues during the learning process in the institute.
• To nurture by taking individual care and personal counselling.
• To motivate the mentee for active participation in various curricular and co-curricular activities and asses the outcome.
• Establishing rapport to provide mutual support and bridge the gap between mentor- mentee and parents.

Mentor-mentee scheme is implemented and effectively works in the college. The committee is formed at the beginning of the academic year. All the activities are monitored by the In-charge and members of the Mentor-Mentee committee under the guidance of IQAC and Principal.

• To achieve the goal, at the beginning of academic year teachers as a mentor and students as mentee are finalized from the student admission list.
• A particular subject teacher is allotted as per the subjects of the mentee.
• The proper mentor-mentee ratio is maintained for soft practices.
• The Mentee list of a particular Mentor comprises students from all three years.
• With an aim to have heterogeneous group, the students from each of the three years are divided more or less equally among all the Mentors of the department, with a maximum of 25 Mentees to one Mentor.
• The Mentor-Mentee Scheme is for the effective redressal of problems and challenges faced by students. lt is a unique, interactive and target-oriented scheme, involving students, teachers and parents to address common student concerns ranging from anxiety, stress, fear of change and failure to homesickness and a slew of other academic worries. It bridges formal as well as communicative gaps between the students and the college at large. Teacher counsellors, trained to act as the guardians of students at the college level, and remain in close touch with the students allotted to them.
• The precise role of the teacher is designed to look after and take personal care for overall development of the allotted mentee throughout the course.
• Mentors regularly met and monitors the situation as per the need of the mentees.
• The information of various program and activities are communicated and are motivated for their active participation.
• What’s app groups are created and communication made through phone calls and SMS. The parent meetings and house visits are arranged to inform academic programs of the college and to discuss performance and progress of the mentee.
• The ‘college open-day’ programme and ‘Mahila-Mata -Palak Melava’ is organized for better communication and bonding of the student-parents with the college.
• Academic and career counselling tasks are performed by the mentors.
• The personal issue if any raised by a Mentee, should be shared in the minutes without disclosing the identity of the respective Mentee. A general point may be recorded in the minutes.
• It is desired that the Mentees be given confidence to raise an issue to respective Mentor.
• All Mentor listen to the query and put some personal efforts to try and solve it as far as possible. The efforts are also be informed to the concerned Mentee.
• The feedback is taken. If issues related to emotional or psychological problems occurs, mentees further recommended for expert guidance to the counselling cell, expertise or concerned authorities of the college.
• In case of no issue raised by any Mentee during the interaction, the Mentor brief them about prevailing issues related to the college at the time concern. They may also plan some informal interactions with the Mentees.

Mentors are asked to submit the report of the activity performed. A standard template followed for report submissions included attendance, minutes of the meeting and action taken report. Simply forwarding the Mentee’s concern to the concerned department/ section/ committee chairman is not at all an action desired by the Mentor. Action taken report should include personal efforts of the mentor to resolve the issue in a brief and summarised manner. Once an issue is resolved, it will be reported as closed in the action taken report. At the end of academic year, the Mentors submit the annual report towards the in charge of the committee.

Standard Operating Procedure

Activities

Year Wise Committee