Designing a Mentoring Program Prototype for the Government Scholars

A mentoring program prototype was developed for the government scholars in response to a CHED requirement. This study explicates how this prototype was evolved using the model of ADDIE, a generic design framework to develop a learning system. Broadly, the process constituted seven steps. It started with analyzing the needs of 231 ESGP-PA grantees. The results were used to design and develop the mechanics of the prototype. The designers drafted a mentoring handbook to explain how the program prototype works, and to guide the mentoring participants. For two school years, 20 ESGP-PA scholars and 10 mentors voluntarily joined the mentoring sessions. Their experiences became the basis for evaluating the prototype, the last stage of the ADDIE process. In general, the prototype was viable; the mentees claimed the sessions enriched their learning; and the mentors were satisfied with the results.  The procedure for designing and developing the prototype; and the positive feedback of the participants, may serve as blueprint to generate a mentoring program for the other needs of the scholars, particularly those under the conditional cash transfer program such as the Expanded Students’ Grants-in-Aid Program for Poverty Alleviation or ESGP-PA locally known as Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program, or 4Ps.

Keywords: ESGP-PA, conditional cash transfer, scholars, 4 Ps