{"id":10244,"date":"2019-02-07T14:53:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/?p=10244"},"modified":"2019-02-07T14:53:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:53:53","slug":"peer-mentoring-in-the-learning-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/peer-mentoring-in-the-learning-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer Mentoring in The Learning Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/peer-mentor-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10245 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/peer-mentor-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Peer Mentor\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/peer-mentor-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/peer-mentor-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/peer-mentor-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/peer-mentor-1-1320x880.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Peer Mentoring Program at Skyline College is designed to help all students achieve their short and long term goals! Our eight peer mentors are trained to facilitate academic and personal success for their fellow students through practical skills by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building knowledge of college resources<\/li>\n<li>Fostering social engagement and a sense of belonging<\/li>\n<li>Increasing student engagement in academics<\/li>\n<li>Developing education, leadership, career and learning goals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Peer mentors are excellent resources for information about Skyline College programs and services. Our peer mentors facilitated over 150 mentor and mentee meetings in Fall 2018 and led 18 workshops on topics such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Time management and organization<\/li>\n<li>Note taking<\/li>\n<li>Stress management<\/li>\n<li>Writing and reading strategies<\/li>\n<li>Goal setting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To connect with a peer mentor in your Meta Major or learn more about our workshops and other services, join us for our Meet the Mentors Mixer this <strong>Tuesday, February 12th, from 1:00 p.m. &#8211; 2:00 p.m. in The Learning Center. Food will be served! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information:<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Raymon Gutierrez, Retention Specialist<br \/>\n<strong>Office:<\/strong> Bldg 5, Room 110<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phone:<\/strong> (650) 738-7136<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:\u00a0<\/strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/peermentors\/\">skylinecollege.edu\/peermentors<br \/>\n<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article written by Raymon Gutierrez |\u00a0Photo by Zaw Min Khant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peer Mentoring Program at Skyline College is designed to help all students achieve their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}