Pathways to Success

4. Volunteer in the HHHS community by electing Hatters Helping Hatters.

Pathways to Success What to expect when you become a mentor to a student One of the distinguishing elements of a Hatboro-Horsham education is the for their Graduation Project: opportunity for high school students to learn 1. in the community. By participating in The student must commit to 30 hours educational experiences that are community of work or service and learning to meet based, students develop career maturity and his/her project goals. Project goals are transition more successfully from high school determined by the student and are What to expect when you to post-secondary education and/or the work approved by the parents and the high become a mentor to a student place. school. Intern:

The following are community based 2. You must meet with your mentee a 1. During the internship semester the student must serve an average of 8 hours opportunities for HHHS students: minimum of 3 times during the per week interning, on location, with the graduation project semester to verify goal of gaining first hand knowledge about service hours and to discuss and 1. Community Service or Personal the skill sets and knowledge required to Enrichment Experience via the reflect on the student’s progress be successful in the field of interest. required Graduation Project. toward project goals. Learning goals will be determined by the student with the intern-teacher’s support, 3. Each student will have a graduation based on personal and professional project teacher but that teacher will objectives. The student intern will attend 2. Create a one-of-a-kind Internship not typically be interacting with you bi-monthly seminars during the internship experience related to post-secondary during the semester of commitment. semester at the high school to discuss educational and/or career goals. common work place topics.

2. You will interview the student to determine if you are able to accommodate 3. Work experience which complements the student’s career-experience goal. The academic learning and future goals student’s mentor-teacher will participate through Working Initiatives (a work- in this process, answer questions and help study program). negotiate an experience that will be mutually beneficial to you and your mentee. Your mentee will then begin the agreement. The training agreement 3. H3 students meet with the H3 internship. There is an internship luncheon outlines the roles and responsibilities of coordinator/teacher at the high school to at the end of the experience to celebrate the student employee and the employer’s review their journal throughout the your mentee’s learning and to thank you commitment to train the student semester. for participating in this community-based throughout the experience. Your WIN learning experience. employee will then begin working.

3. An intern-teacher will support you and 3. The WIN-teacher will support you and your student intern throughout the your WIN employee by making frequent internship semester. The mentor-teacher site visits to observe and coach the WIN Still have questions? Contact: will communicate with you via phone or employee. He/she will also communicate email and on-site visits with the intern. with the employer frequently so that we Sue Fox can successfully support our student as Pathways & Community Learning Development Career Education and Work Curriculum Coordinator he/she learns positive work habits and job Hatboro-Horsham High School retention skills. During the school day, the What to expect when you [email protected] mentor a Working Initiatives WIN-teacher will support the WIN students basing lessons on successful SO YOU’VE BEEN (WIN) student: employment skills and managing the money 1. WIN student s are in a work-study they earn (personal finance). ASKED TO BE A program and are considered employees. What to expect when you WIN students train, work and are as MENTOR? responsible to their employer as any other mentor a student participating employees of the business. WIN students in Hatters Helping Hatters must work 15 hours a week (M-F) but may work as the employer needs them above (H3): the 15 hour minimum throughout a 7 day 1. H3 student s have volunteered to serve week. The student will meet with his/her their school community by electing this WIN-teacher weekly during the school service class. Students work one assigned year. period within the school district during 2. You will interview the student to the school day. They help where help is determine if you are able to accommodate needed. H3 students keep a journal of the student’s career-experience goal. The volunteer activity. student’s WIN-teacher will participate in this process, answer questions and help 2. As an H3 mentor you assign the day’s duty negotiate an experience that will be to your volunteer and he/she will work on Mentor Commitment Guide mutually beneficial to you and your new that project that day. You need to report employee. Employer, student, any absence to the high school H3 Graduation Project parent/guardian and school district coordinator/teacher. Internship representatives will sign a training Working Initiatives Hatters Helping Hatters

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