Mill Village Farms Class Mentor Description
Volunteer Position | Class Mentor
Purpose:
The purpose of the Class Mentor is:
- Engage with youth from the community by partnering with them during the course
- Assisting the Class Facilitator with group assignments and set-up/clean-up
Responsibilities:
- Attend | The class mentor will attend 80% of the classes.
- 8 week classes (attend 6 of 8 sessions)
- Class runs 5:30-7:30 and will always begin with a meal during the first hour followed by a pre-planned lesson for the remaining hour.
- Assist | The class mentor will assist both the students & facilitator during class
- Students will be working individually and in small groups through various life-skills education. Mentors will work alongside students to encourage them to actively participate and stay attentive. This task may include helping them write out a personal budget, type out their resume, or come up with questions to ask guests.
- Facilitators will prepare all class material; mentors will assist the facilitator in classroom management (passing out papers, handing out pens, taking work up) and classroom set up and clean up from meal (taking out the trash, wiping down tables, ect.).
- Engage | The class mentor will engage with students to help reinforce class material and provide the student with a caring, consistent, adult relationship.
- The most important role of a class mentor is connecting with our students and serving as a caring adult that can also be a resource to our students. We hope to build our student’s social capital by introducing them to successful adults.
- Connecting with students by asking them questions about their life and remembering details, learning about and respecting their differences, sharing about your own life (even embarrassing and funny stories), and being willing to not be too serious.
Optional: Many of our students attend schools that allow us to have lunch with them (Legacy Charter, Berea High School, Carolina High). If you are able, we’d love for you to join us once a month to have lunch with our students at their schools!