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==Moomba Park Primary School Student Peer Mentoring Program ==

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Discover for yourself the true value of student mentoring, the wonderful teaching and learning that is encapsulated through an effective program where students' self efficacy is developed and student learning is improved. The students targeted for the mentoring program are students that would benefit from highly engaging and socially interactive sessions. The purpose of the mentoring program is aimed at targeting students with low academic achievement, especially boys. Aiming to not only meet their educational needs but also change their holistic nature of education. My Action research project involves a Peer Mentoring Program investigating the positive impact of peer-helping. The purpose of the Action Research program is to investigate and prove that through Peer Mentoring positive changes can occur in a number of areas of functioning including self-esteem enhancement, academic improvement, improved academic engagement and improved peer relationships.

The Student Mentoring Program is designed to enable students of years 5 and 6 to work with younger students. The students are paired together where they work on various class activities such as literacy, developmental play, ICT.

//"The nature of giving that takes place in mentoring relationships, explaining that as the mentor gives of what is alive in him or her, s/he enhances the other's sense of aliveness, which in turn reflects back to the mentor and enhances his or her sense of aliveness". ---(Yamamoto, 1998, p.1 88.) // //​ //