Sanchez Elementary School Online Mentoring Program Tips for Online Mentors: Getting Started

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• If you are going to participate in this program from your work computer, secure permission from your supervisor for your participation in this program.

• Complete Your Online Profile
  This is the profile youth will use to choose a mentor, or that the program coordinator will use to match youth with mentors.

• Check your regular e-mail at least every other day
  This is how you will receive notice when you have been matched with a youth, and how you will receive program updates from this project's coordinators.

• Check your Sanchez Elementary School mentor account each day
  This is how you will receive notice when you have been matched with a youth, and how and where you will exchange messages with the student.

• When you receive an e-mail from your protegé, introduce yourself!
  Tell the young person how excited you are to be working with him or her, that you're grateful for the opportunity and that you're really glad to have the chance to get to know them. And be sure to respond to any questions the youth may have had in his or her first e-mail to you!

  The following is a sample introduction:

  Hi, Ann! People call me Marie, which is my middle name. My first name is also Ann!

  As you probably read on my profile, I'm 32. I live in Louisville, Kentucky. Have you ever been to Kentucky?

  I work as a Communications Director. That means I spend most of my time writing, and reading what other people have written. Do you like to write?

  Have you always lived in Texas? What other places have you visited? Where would you like to visit?

  Your teacher says you are now reading "Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH." That's one of my favorite books! Do you like it? What is happening in the story right now?

  I am looking forward to hearing more from you!

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