The singapore american school mentoring program

Encourage students to apply connectivist learning and networking skills to initiate youth-mentoring opportunities with real world experts in order to support their personalized projects, as well as, develop their real world competencies in communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity.

• Mentors have the ability to “Give Back” while impacting a young professional.
• Mentoring allows professionals to be reflective in their own practice and profession.
• Younger mentees often provide insight into upcoming trends.
• Youth-mentoring research indicates mentors report more job satisfaction when mentoring youth.
• Mentors can expand their network into other SAS networks and future professionals (mentees).

Use the following quick reference links to learn what you need to know as an SAS Catalyst mentor.

1.  A Mentors Guide to Catalyst
2.  The Role of Mentoring in Catalyst
3.  Mentoring Expectations within Catalyst
4.  Maintaining Mentee Safety
5.  Mentor Professional Conduct

Use the following quick reference links to access key strategies to help you succeed as an SAS Catalyst mentor.

1.  Promoting Active Listening
2.  Setting and Maintaining Boundaries
3.  How to avoid Lopsided Triangles
4.  How to Avoid Prescriptive Styles
5.  Deciding to Share or Not (Self-Disclosure)

The following resources will help SAS Catalyst mentors with bringing closure to their mentoring relationship.

1.  SAS Mentoring Policies and Procedures: Unmatching and Closure Policy
2. The Importance of Healthy Closure and How to Do It Well