Language Explorers Scotland: Mentor information session

Language Explorers Scotland: Mentor information session

Information session for students interested in joining the Language Explorers programme as a mentor for 2025-26

By SCILT, Scotland's National Centre for Languages

Date and time

Location

Online

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour

Language Explorers Scotland

Language Explorers Scotland consists of a short series of mentoring sessions for learners in secondary schools, led by university students with lived experiences of language learning and multiculturalism. It aims to win hearts and minds of young people by giving them time to explore the bigger picture of language learning with a trained, supportive student mentor.

Volunteering as a mentor means sharing your passion for language and cultures with young people, opening their eyes to the possibilities that learning a language can offer them, both now and in the future. Being a mentor will add valuable leadership and employability skills to your repertoire and will offer you the chance to learn more about leading and facilitating mentoring sessions online. Not only is this a hugely rewarding experience, but adding this experience to your CV can also provide an excellent way to make you stand out from the crowd. 

As a mentor you will be expected to:

  • deliver weekly online mentoring sessions with groups of up to 10 mentees for 6 weeks
  • be an activist for languages!
  • be aware that you will be working with young people from a range of different backgrounds and with aspirations which may or may not involve university
  • encourage and inspire all young people to see the relevance and benefit of language learning in their life

Timeline

  • Wednesday 1 October - attend online information session with SCILT - attendance is a prerequisite for application
  • Wednesday 8 October - deadline to submit application and short introduction video
  • Saturday 25 October* - in-person training day in Glasgow
  • Wednesday 29 October* - online training session 1
  • Wednesday 5 November* - online training session 2

*attendance at all three training sessions is mandatory

FreeOct 1 · 7:00 AM PDT