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Remote mentoring for students: It’s not where, it’s how

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Mentoring support could play a key role in helping to safeguard or rebuild the wellbeing of students who are stuck at home due to lockdown or self-isolation. Stephanie George looks at effective remote mentoring of students


New modalities are being established for the teaching and learning of students, but what of the impact of physical distance from school for those students who need pastoral and other support, such as from pastoral staff, mentoring practitioners, safeguarding officers and heads of year?

The pandemic has affected the emotional, social and mental wellbeing of young people on a scale that has never been seen before. A YoungMinds survey in autumn 2020 found that:

So the question is: “Can we, from a distance, effectively support students who are outside of the classroom to manage their emotional wellbeing?” I would say that we can – and so the question becomes: “How?”

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