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Learn it, Live it, Pass it Forward
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All students interested in participating in a PIO Student Mentoring Program are asked to pick one subject in which they can mentor a younger student. Could it be with math? Reading? At the same time, students will state in which area they would like to be mentored by an older student. |
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Mentors and Proteges are then matched up with students and corporate sponsors. Many students will participate as mentors as well as mentees.
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We are anticipating the Pass It Forward Student Mentoring Program to begin pilot programs in September of 2008 in elementary schools, middle schools and high schools.
What we have found is that when you match up students where one excels and the other needs help, although they are only one year apart in a certain grade, they my be two or three years apart in a certain subject.
"There have always been three groups of popular kids in school - It seems that if you are smart, athletic or good looking you may be one of those popular kids. However, I believe we can create a fourth group of popular kids and that is a group of cool kids that are performing acts of kindness, and are accepting of others."
"When we start nominating these students for mentoring awards and humanitarian awards, and giving them strokes, I believe they will do more acts of kindness and it will be cool to be accepting of others." Arlan Berglas
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| Is Your School In The Student Mentoring Program Yet? |
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The Pass It Forward (PIF) Student Mentoring Program helps empower students to realize that they can make a positive difference in others lives.
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At each session the mentors and the proteges may play a board game, card game, crossword puzzle games, acting out games, truth or dare games, challenge games all steered towards acts of kindness, building character values and passing it on. See the Pass It Forward Activities. In addition to the PIF Activities and tools that are free and easy to download, we recommend having students take part in We, The World's Global Contests.
Additionally, the mentors and the proteges will each have a workbook with fun exercises designed to help build confidence and self esteem at each mentor/protege session.
In an after-school setting, we anticipate the first hour from 3:00 - 4:00 pm will be a combination of helping with homework and playing mentoring connection games to help build each others confidence while working in their game books.
The 2nd hour from 4:00 - 5:00 pm will be a time when all of the mentors and mentees in a classroom will get together for a fun group exercises pertaining to that weeks theme.
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Now part of the Pass It Forward Movement
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Both the mentor and the proteges self esteem will be enhanced at each session. This will result in an increase in attendance, higher test scores, and lower the disciplinary problems within the school. Participants communication skills have proven since 1989 to build charater and self confidence to last a lifetime. See game workbook.
To play the Mentoring Connection Game, players spin a spinner that they made together. The base of the spinner will have a picture of the mentor and protege. As they move around the board they answer questions in one of five categories. To see questions from the Mentoring Connection Game.
We are now in the process of putting together a Pass It Forward team that is on this level of cosmic consciousness from all over the world that wants to be part of the Pass It Forward Movement. If you would like to be a volunteer classroom director, school director, neighborhood director, city, county, state or regional director please contact
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