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ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF MENTOR AND MENTEE
MENTOR
1.  Providing an environment that harnesses growth and development

2.Challenge the mentee

3.Skills in needs identification

4. Documentation

5. To manage the group dynamics

6. Assess progress

7. Planning and support

8. Create a mentoring framework

9. To manage the mentoring process

10.To maintain confidentiality

MENTEE
1. Accept and act on feedback

2. Self assessment

3. Implement what has been learnt

4. Identifying strengths and areas of improvement

5. To share ideas and experiences

6.To come-up with an agenda for  the mentoring relationship

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Evaluate/measure
·  Using attendance sheets / registers

·  Students/learners  outcomes

· Improve teachers’ practices
Bench marking within schools

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·  No effective data collection tool currently exists.

We need to develop tools for effective data collection

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· Provide opportunities to either gender

·Sensitization to group members on the importance of either gender participating.

· Define clear roles, responsibilities and expectations

· Gender mainstreaming in the group
Reducing group sizes to enhance participation

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Limited time /  budget constraints / wide geographical coverage
· Allow for  cover a wide geographical area of coverage

· Cluster activities to be part of educational structures

· Engage local  existing government structure

· Strengthening  training quality and standards  from the onset

· Establishment of reference manuals/materials

· Use of ICT/WIT

Teacher attrition
· Having resource pool of teacher

· Establishment MOU with the participant and/or the government to curb unnecessary attrition

· Group mentoring (providing new skills)
Institutionalization/sustainability/ adaptation
· Interventions should integrated  in Education structures

·Increases the probability of uptake (In terms of numbers)

· Make group mentoring part of the systemic nature of existing structures

· Make it be part of the SDPs

· Enforcement of group mentorship from the onset of a project.

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Mentor
A person who is a willing to share

· One who  has an influence

· Knowledgeable and skilled person

· One with good interpersonal skills

· One who can Manage a group of people

· One who is Self-motivated

· One with organizational skills

· When it’s a Job requirement (SQA, DAOs, etc)
Mentee

·         Willing person to learn/adapt  to change

·         One who is tech- Savvy

·         One with a transformative mentality

·         Individuals with a need to close a knowledge gap

One with positive interdependence

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· Where members have/ identify a common need

· During  training/intervention

· Induction of new teachers/members

· When  a large number of people is to be reached

· Scaling up intervention  measures

· During/after a given  project

· As a training tool

· Widening  a scope of collaboration

· Development of skills/ knowledge

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Group mentorship occurs when more than two people come together for the purpose of sharing the experiences. The sharing can be done by an expert to the group or among peers.
Purpose:
•  Identifying training/learning  needs
• Inducting new members
• Refreshing members skills and knowledge

Applicability:

· Refining teachers’ skills (improve uptake of learning  in various experiences)

Where a wider pool of experience is desired.

·  Time saving

·Addressing common challenges

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2.Where should Mentorship Activity be held

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2.Where should Mentorship Activity be held

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Agreed place e.g

·  School level

·   At the assembly

Virtually (use of sms, Skype, whats up ,  etc)