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?

• 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 know of any clubs/extracurricular activities at school that you would be interested in? If you’re already in one, what do you enjoy the most about it?

2. Mentors - Were you a part of any clubs or extracurricular activities in high school or college? What made you choose that? What did you learn from it/was it helpful to you in some way?

3. Mentors - How did you navigate school work and extracurricular involvement?

Guiding Questions:

Use this time to help your student start implementing positive time management skills into their week! Please ask them to get out a piece of paper or their planner and write these things down.

1. Start by asking if they have a planner or what type of system they use to organize themself.

2. Make a list of important deadlines/events you may have for the next two weeks (ex. Sports game, test, project due, etc.). If they don’t know off of the top their head have them log in to their class websites to check!

3. Write out your personal goals (long and short term). These goals can be new or old ones that you have shared before.

   1. Long term goals should be anywhere from 1 week to 1 semester. Short term goals should be within the time frame of 1 week, but usually 1-2 days.

   2. Help your student make their schedule for tomorrow from the morning to evening.

   3. Have your student set reminders to start working on those tasks! Reminders can be as simple as sticky notes or through an app on your phone.

4. Encourage them to do this each week and plan ahead!

5. Discuss any relaxation tips that you know of or talk about establishing a pre-test routine to help with test anxiety.

Guiding Questions:

• Mentor- Discuss with your student the importance of learning about Mental Health, Life Stressors, and Healthy Coping Skills.

• Student - Do you have any questions on anything covered in the presentation? What is something new you learned from the presentation on Mental Health and Coping Skills?

• Student- Are there any coping skills you learned about in the presentation that you have used or are currently using? What is a coping skill you want to use after this meeting?

• Mentors- What are coping skills you have used in your life? Have these coping skills changed throughout your life? Any consistent?

• Student- What are some life stressors that you are worried about at the moment, that either affect you or affect someone you care about?

• Mentors- Discuss the importance of positive affirmations with your student. Please share with your student positive affirmations that you used in your life and how they have helped you.

• Student- What are positive affirmations you plan to use after this meeting?

Activity:
RoadTripNation Career Interest Profiler -- Get to know what careers might align with your interests.

Alternative Activity:

Career Exploration Kahoot

Guiding Questions:

Students: Have you thought about a potential career? If not, what are some things you like to do or would like to develop a skill in?

Mentors: Please share a little bit about your own career and how you got there.

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 you excited about for high school? Are you worried about anything?

• Students - Are there any clubs or sports you’re interested in? Mentors - Were you a part of any clubs or sports? Do you feel it made an impact on you?

• 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?

Guiding Questions:

Students, what did you put down as your goal for this year? Mentors, please feel free to share about your own goals and how you got there/how students can get to their goals.

Student Goal:

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