Guiding Questions:

• Student to mentors - How would you recommend that I work on areas I want to improve in?

• Mentors - What has your experience been with interviews? What was your first ever interview like? How do you prepare for interviews?

• Students & Mentors - Please practice answering an interview question with your mentor, pretend that your mentor is your interviewer. Mentors, please give students praise and feedback on their responses.

  • What is one of your strengths and one of your weaknesses?

  • Tell me about yourself.

  • Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

  • Any other common interview question a mentor would like to practice.

Guiding Questions:

1. Students - Do you have any concerns about senior year? How would you plan to keep organized and on track?

2. Mentors - How did you juggle school courses, senior activities, and preparing for college during your senior year? Any words of advice?

3. Mentors - How did you avoid “senioritis”? And if you didn’t, what was that experience like? How should students keep themselves motivated through their last year in HS?

Activity: Draft your College List

List of NEEDS:

List of WANTS

Guiding Questions:

Mentors – Did you make a college list? What factors did you consider in deciding which school you went to? Did you dorm, live off campus, or at home and what was your experience like?

Mentors – What was one thing you appreciated about your school that you didn’t know before you went there? What was one thing you wish you had considered or are glad you considered before you went there?

Students – Please share with your mentors what your wants/needs are in a college. Is there anything your mentor mentioned that you hadn’t yet thought of? Do you see yourself living on campus or at home? Are you ready to research schools or are there things you still want to consider/think about before doing so? Anything that concerns you?

Activity:

Conflict Scenarios:

SCENARIO #1

Your best friend told someone something you asked them to keep private.

Questions you should keep in mind when thinking about arriving at a solution for this scenario:

• Do you need to problem-solve or use conflict resolution?

• What are the steps you would take to come to a solution?

• What would you do?

SCENARIO #2

You get a D+ on your final report card in a class you tried your hardest on and feel like you deserve a higher grade. You’ve asked the teacher questions on how to do it, have turned in all your work, and have done all the extra credit assignments.

Questions you should keep in mind when thinking about arriving at a solution for this scenario:

• Do you need to problem-solve or use conflict resolution?

• What are the steps you would take to come to a solution?

• What would you do?

SCENARIO #3

You’re assigned a partner for a project in one of your classes but they aren’t doing their fair share and you asked the teacher to switch partners. Due to a limited number of people in the class you’re stuck with this partner.

Questions you should keep in mind when thinking about arriving at a solution for this scenario:

• Do you need to problem-solve or use conflict resolution?

• What are the steps you would take to come to a solution?

• What would you do?

Guiding Questions:

• Student - How confident do you feel with the information that you just learned? Why do you feel that way?

• Student- What was something you didn’t know or hadn’t realized about paying for college?

• Mentors- Did you learn anything new about paying for college?

• Student- Have you thought about college, which route seems best for you at this time? Cal State? UC’s? Community College? Private?

• Mentors- Feel free to explain your experience/s with “paying your way” for college or thoughts about finances as a college student!

Guiding Questions:

• Students- Why do you think taking care of our mental health is important?

• Mentors- Please talk to your student about the importance of developing good mental health practices early in life. Please talk about the benefits of good mental health practices in adulthood.

• Students- What stresses you out currently? What’s on your mind at the moment?

• Mentors- What are things that you do in your free time that make you happy and less stressed?

• Students- What are things that you do in your free time that make you happy and less stressed? If you don’t have anything specific in mind, think about some things you can do to help you feel less stressed.

• Students & Mentor - Are there any strategies from today’s presentation you’d like to try out?

Activity:
You and your student will be working together on the A-G puzzle. The goal is for your student to get a better understanding of the requirements of each section, the years the student would need to complete each section, and the type of college or university that requires this of students. While you’re building this puzzle please make sure to ask students:

Alternative Activity:

College Truths & Myths Kahoot

Guiding Questions:

• Students - What are your future plans after graduating?

• Has the student thought about applying and attending college? Cal-State? UC’s? Community College? Private?

• What requirement is the student least worried about? And, what requirement does the student think will challenge them the most? Why?

• Mentors - If you went to college or university, you could possibly share how you overcame challenges with challenging subjects?

• Students - Any other questions you’d like answered this year?