Role of Mentoring in Secondary School Education: Mentees' Experiences and Challenges

Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of skills, aptitude, proficiency, shared interaction, and the fair provision in education, livelihood, or professional maturity. Mentoring plays a very vibrant role in the academic development of students. This study explored why mentoring is considered vital for 9th and 10th grade students and how mentees are associated with their mentors. In what way mentoring flourishes in the secondary schools and by what means mentors are supporting the mentees to cope with the challenges they are facing in schools. Moreover, in what manners mentoring is going to establish a new epoch of optimistic thinking as well as positive attitudes. A qualitative method was used and data were collected by conducting interviews with mentees. Analysis of data elaborated with identification and categorization of themes. The study established the fact that mentoring was helpful for mentees to cope with challenges in their social, academic, and personal life.