IO6
Output Title DIGITAL TOOL
Output Type Open / online / digital education – Other
Start Date (yyyy-mm-dd) 2022-05-01
End Date (yyyy-mm-dd) 2022-08-31
Output Description (including: needs analysis, target groups, elements of innovation, expected impact and transferability potential)
The aim of this output is to create a Digital Tool for students to learn or get help from mentors interactively. It will be an innovative way and platform of social learning available for the partner schools for learning and mentorship opportunities.
Mentor is the person who guides the students during his education life and helps them solve problems and reach their goals. It is clear that if the student gets help from someone who is expert on specific fields, he will do fewer mistakes comparing those who don’t get any help.
Mentor teaching system is a program of process and continues throughout the student's life. Follow-up is one of the most important points of student mentoring. The system offers key methods in academic success, in fulfilling educational goals, in solving problems and tries to achieve this as soon as possible. The followings are aimed with this system;
• Continuous communication with an educator at school.
• To evaluate their development periodically with the mentors and to know that they are monitored by the mentors.
• To be more active in academic and social fields.
• Developing personal planning and evaluation skills.
• Identifying needs for development.
• Improving attention.
• Learning to organize work habits in a way that best suits their personal characteristics and needs.
• Increasing motivation.
• Taking responsibility for their success.
• Increasing academic success.
• Increasing communication and coordination between school and parents.
The mentors will:
• In order to keep track of the students' progress, they review the student's situation at school once a month and ensure that they are evaluated by the student.
• Evaluate to what extent the objectives are achieved and what is needed to achieve all.
• Support the student to determine new goals when necessary.
• Listen to the student's problems about family and friendship and direct them to the appropriate unit.
TARGET GROUPS: Risky students in the school determined in the risk analysis will be a member of this system as a priority. The team consisting of counsellor and volunteer teachers in the project team will be encouraged to be registered as mentor teachers.
ELEMENTS OF INNOVATION: Student coaching or mentoring systems are generally applications in schools to increase the academic success levels of students however, in this system, a risky group of students will be selected and content will be created according to their needs and their development will be monitored. This digital mentoring program, which is only valid for students in partner schools during the project, will be open to other students for a period of one year after the end of the project. In this way, students will have the opportunity to do peer mentoring on the same platform with their peers who have experienced the same problems.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND TRANSFERABILITY POTENTIAL: With the digital mentoring program, it will be possible for risky students in schools to solve their problems which they cannot speak face-to-face with their mentors and to rehabilitate the risky students through videos, articles related to the content to be determined by the results of the needs analysis applied to them. In this way, discipline problems in schools are expected to be reduced by at least 10% and absenteeism problems by 20%.