To minimize dropouts, improve performance and reduce stress of the students through personal counseling.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>Students undergo various problems of stress- personal, academic, physical, mental. Engineering education is a time bound course with time limitations to complete their work especially during the first two years. Students are new to professional college life and the demands of education; create a lot of stress, especially to hostel students who are away from family for the first time. Also, in the economically weaker students and students from educationally weak background, this creates a lot of complex and do not perform well due to inhibitions. Statistics reveal increasing number of suicides and dropouts. Considering the student-teacher ratio in classrooms, it is impossible at times to give personal attention to students in class. One solution therefore is a Mentoring which can form the bond between teachers and students in the true sense. Mentoring is required for students to achieve emotional stability and to promote clarity in thinking and decision making for overall progress.<\/p>\n The practice is that of creating an efficient mentoring system. Each teacher is assigned 15-20 students for the complete duration of their study. They meet at least once a week to discuss, clarify and primarily to share various problems which may be personal, domestic, academic, etc. The mentors encourage the students to participate in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities and sports. Their academic performance and other activities are all recorded. Students should inform their mentors on all their movements like their absence from college, sickness etc. The mentors also keep in touch with the parents on their attendance, test performance, fee payment, examinations etc. The teacher is equipped with all the necessary information about his\/her wards on a file. The teacher involves local guardians and parents as well, whenever necessary for any advice or help. At the end of every month the mentors prepare a report of their mentees progress. The mentors also counsel the students in need of emotional problems. When the students have any problem in any department either with the staff or with work completion the mentors speak with the respective staff and sorts out the problem. Mentors take special care of slow learners, who are given advice on how to study, prepare a time table for study and clarify the doubts and also given notes to study. They will meet the mentors once a month and get the report of the progress and achievements of students and complaints of and by the students. These complaints are discussed with the Principal and necessary action taken to rectify the complaints.<\/p>\n Student counseling committee works actively and maintains regular touch with the students for\u00a0 sort out the problems that they encounters during their studies at any stage. The immediate solutions given to the students are as follows.<\/p>\n Majority of the Students are unwilling to open and share their problems freely to the mentors. Therefore it makes the mentor to understand the problems of him\/her to give right guidance.<\/p>\n Effectiveness of counseling and mentoring<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Counseling and mentoring system developed by the Institute has been proved to be effective considering different parameters. The involvement of students in the academics has increased, like class work attendance, self-confidence, adjusting to the new environment, Time management, participation in cultural activities etc. Because the number of students allocated to each of the mentor is limited to one class, personal interaction on regular basis has been possible.<\/p>\n The following are the example for the effectiveness of the mentoring process:<\/p>\n\n
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