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RS School Mentor

If you:

feel an irresistible desire to share your experience and knowledge
want to boost your soft skills
are looking for beginner developers for your company or project
your project / company is looking for beginner developers
lack communication
or studied at The Rollings Scopes School yourself, and it's time to “Pay It Forward”. Then this message is for you! The Rolling Scopes is looking for mentors from all over the world for a new cohort of students from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

The goal of the educational initiative is to teach everyone who wants to learn JavaScript and dive into the Front-end world. In 2017-2018 alone, more than 700 people successfully completed our six-month training program.
School website: https://rs.school/
Mentoring period: March 24, 2020 - July 6, 2020.
Mentoring Topics: html / css / javascript.
From your side you need to be able to devote 4-8 hours a week or more (if you wish).
You can mentor from 2 to 6 students.
You can mentor remotely.
Perks: New acquaintances, new opportunities for communication, cool mentor T-shirt and a mug ☺️
To become a mentor, you need to fill out the form - https://app.rs.school/registry/mentor

Gentleman's agreement

Mentors have the priority right to hire their own students to their company / project / team.

What does mentoring mean?

Weekly meetings of the mentor with their group of students (on Skype, Google Hangouts, Telegram, Slack, etc.).
Mentor answers students' questions, helps with tasks if possible.
Mentor checks and evaluates students' work through a review of the corresponding students' Pull Requests (about 7 works during stage # 2). As a result, each student’s PR contains mentor’s comments on the code, recommendations and a final grade. Mentor grades the work based on the assessment criteria specified for each assignment. After checking, the mentor records the score in the Score form, on the basis of which the Public Score is generated.
The mentor conducts training interviews (two for each student).
The mentor can give additional lectures if they wish.
One mentor can teach from 2 to 6 students (if they wish).

Possible additional activities for mentors. Only at the mentor’s wish :)

Offline lectures in your city (offline streams).
Conducting webinars, hosting YouTube Live events.
Preparation and conduct of tasks / tests.
Development of school applications and utilities.
Hiring own students.
Writing articles for the school blog https://medium.com/rs-school/.
Mentoring students on their pet projects after the third stage of training.
Other.

Basic rules for the students and mentors interaction

Communication is initiated by the student. The student should be motivated to study.
The mentor must check the students’ work within 1-2 weeks.
Assessment of the work is carried out through a review of the corresponding Pull Requests
Students ask most of the questions in corresponding Discord channels, not their mentor. Learn more about Discord channels organization.

How can a mentor interact with students effectively?

Schedule weekly meetings. The meeting format is "1-to-1" or general. Duration is 30-60 minutes. Add a meeting to your calendar and students’ calendars.
Before meetings, view student(s) open Pull Requests. Leave your comments. Each PR should have at least three of your comments.
During the call, discuss comments / suggestions, mark the work, answer current questions, give recommendations for the next tasks.
Mentors can team up and mentor students together. In this case, students are still attached to a specific mentor, but the mentors of students in a team can check students’ tasks at their convenience. For example, check assignments and hold meetings in turn.

Mentors’ Deadlines

Student deadlines are indicated in the schedule. It is expected that the mentor checks the student's work within 1-2 weeks after the student submits the task.

Pay it forward

The school works on the principle of "Pay it forward". According to this principle, we expect students who studied at our school for free to come back as mentors to pass on their knowledge to the next generation of students.