Peer Mentoring Programme

Welcome to the Peer Mentoring Programme from Knowledge and Skills.
This guide will help you to take the first steps in planning and implementing a peer mentoring programme in your school or college. This programme support is given in four parts:
• An 87-page PowerPoint presentation structured into 10 training sessions covering essential information for trainee mentors
• A 58-page training and information guide for teachers/tutors to help deliver the training
• A set of optional forms and templates to record key information during the mentoring process such as draft agreements and review sheets
• A 30-page Peer Mentor’s reflective journal or diary for trainee mentors to record their impressions, strengths and areas of development.
This pack is delivered in simple format (Word and PowerPoint) to allow you to customise or adapt it to your own situation. It is intended as a practical ‘first steps’ guide to setting up a peer mentoring programme in a school or college if you intend to do so. Students who go on to be peer mentors will be helping others, developing valuable skills and generating evidence to add to a CV or personal statement. This pack does not cover the research background or justification for peer mentoring, it is assumed that if have decided to embark on a peer mentoring programme you may be looking for information on what steps to take, and how to avoid pitfalls. You do not need any previous experience of organising mentoring schemes in order to use this guide. The target group for this programme and training is students aged 15+ who will be acting as peer mentors for students of their own age or one or two years younger. It is not intended for primary schools, the language and exercises in the training sessions are aimed at older students, although the general principles apply. The guide and training will also provide evidence to support many qualifications at Level 1 in this area.