Mentoring Students and Young People - 9781138145962

Taylor & Francis

Used in a wide range of situations in education, the development of mentoring and mentoring schemes in education over the last few years has been dramatic. This handbook presents mentors and anyone working with young people with a guide to effective > Mentoring is used in a wide range of situations in education: to assist learning; to help weaker students or those with specific learning needs or difficulties; to develop community or business links; to aid the inclusion of pupils otherwise at risk of exclusion; to develop ethnic links; to enable students to benefit from the support of their peers, to name but a few.The development and proliferation of mentoring and mentoring schemes in education over the last few years has been dramatic, and presents teachers, school managers and leaders, as well as mentors themselves with a challenge. This book presents all mentors plus anyone working with young people with an invaluable guide to approaches to mentoring today. It looks at mentoring