KCADOR SCHOOL MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

The Kenya centers of academicians is committed to journeying with academic institutions towards achieving a success culture. Research conducted by the Kenya centers of academicians {2010-2015}, shows that the leading challenge contributing to poor academic performance in schools in Kenya today is the READING CULTURE PROBLEM. Over 80% of schools have learners who we may liken them to wheelbarrows since they cannot work without supervision. The wheelbarrow students do not possess the desire to learn, they only work under the supervision of the teacher and therefore just like wheelbarrows you will find them in the very position you left them. This explains the cheating problem in examination that became an educational national disaster recently.  This problem seems to have curbed through tough rules and tight supervision during the exam time.

 The question is how long will we deploy security officers to guard our schools day and night every time we sit for national examination?  This is not just expensive but it is shameful to admit that the children we have invested in and trained all these years cannot be trusted in the exam room. Where are the values we inculcated unto them? The discipline we taught? The honesty we mentored? The integrity we implanted? Where is the content we taught? Why did we have to cover the syllabus? Why did we hire teachers to teach, pay salaries the whole year?  Do we admit that we have been wasting our pressures time? It’s time to change! Security measures may seem to solve the problem but it wont last long before students device other intelligent ways to obtain answers for the questions they are asked.

The consequences of poor reading culture is more expensive that the cost of investing in the right methods of teaching and learning styles. Students who cheat in exams will graduate believing that cheating is the best and shortest route to achieving whatever you want in life. Soon they become corrupt doctors, cheating lawyers, dishonest managers, immoral entrepreneurs, crooked politicians and bad example teachers. What will stop a teacher who cheated his way to success from telling and showing the students how to cheat in a national exam?

KCADOR partners with schools to provide special mentorship that creates a long-lasting success culture. Schools which enroll in KCADOR program will benefit from a minimum of one year. KCADOR Mentors will facilitate all mentoring programs in the school aiming to transform the school’s culture in three areas; – CAREER, TALENT and ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE.

WHY SCHOOLS SHOULD INVEST IN MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS

According to MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, children at risk who had a mentor were:

•     55% more likely to enroll in college
•     52% less likely to skip school
•      37% less likely to skip class
•      78% more likely to volunteer regularly
•      90% interested in become a mentor themselves
•     130% more likely to hold leadership positions
•     Youth who had a mentor also showed a better attitude towards school.
•     Regular meetings between mentor and student saw that youth were:
•     46% less likely to use drugs
•     27% less likely to drink
•     81% more likely to participate in extracurricular activities

 At its best, mentoring can be a life-altering relationship that inspires mutual growth, learning, and development. Its effects can be remarkable, profound and enduring; mentoring relationships have the capacity to transform individual groups, organizations and communities. (Ragins and Kram, 2007b)

KCADOR Member schools benefit in the following programs; –