“Seven Tips to Launch an After School Tutoring Program” plus 2 more |
- Seven Tips to Launch an After School Tutoring Program
- Greer Elementary Celebrates 100 Hours of Tutoring
- DoD provides unlimited tutoring
| Seven Tips to Launch an After School Tutoring Program Posted: 29 Apr 2010 06:40 AM PDT 1. Connect with established programs. Check with local programs like LA's Best, your local school district, YMCA or other educational non-profits for support and ideas. They know your community, have expertise and can help you think through all the nuts and bolts. 2. Partner with a school. Chances are, schools with low test scores located in neighborhoods with high crime rates have kids that can use your help. Plus, administrators and teachers can steer students in need of tutoring your way, and help you with logistics like permission slips and student contact information. Added bonus: If you can use a classroom at the school site you don't have to hunt for tutoring space. 3. Recruit the locals. Effective tutors build relationships. Sanger advocates, "intentional and vigorous recruiting from the communities where you're going to work, because those are the people who can most understand the kids." If your tutors come from outside the students' community, make sure they have culturally aware attitudes. "They need to understand that these kids are very smart and have a lot of assets, resources and knowledge." 4. Train your tutors. "You don't just pick up a book and start tutoring," says Sanger. Tutors need to learn how to build students' trust and respect. "Maya Angelou said you may not remember what somebody said but you'll always remember how they made you feel," she says. Otherwise, just as a kid ditches school, they'll ditch the tutor. Also, train your tutors how to break concepts down for kids without using abstract, class-based metaphors. If the kids can't relate, they'll tune out. 5. Critical thinking. Helping kids complete homework reinforces standards-based classroom instruction, but while doing so, tutors should teach kids critical thinking skills. "Tutoring isn't just a knowledge transfer," says Sanger. "Help kids identify where they're stuck and teach them how to think through solutions because that's a lifelong skill." 6. Hook the parents. Send home information about your tutoring program before it starts and hold a parent orientation to explain your program's structure and goals. Make sure to hold the orientation at times convenient to a working parent's schedule. You may also need to provide second language translation. Once your program gets going, plan to give parents regular updates on their children's progress. 7. Keep it manageable. If this is your first time tutoring, you don't have to start out with huge numbers of tutors and students. Even if it's just you and a couple of community members each tutoring a few students, your efforts will make a difference. "You're teeing these kids up to be successful so make a meaningful connection with them." says Sanger. This post originally appeared on www.refresheverything.com, as part of GOOD's collaboration with the Pepsi Refresh Project, a catalyst for world-changing ideas. Find out more about the Refresh campaign, or submit your own idea today. Photo (cc) by Flickr user cityyear  Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Greer Elementary Celebrates 100 Hours of Tutoring Posted: 28 Apr 2010 02:36 PM PDT April 28, 2010 A little bit of extra work is going a long way at an Albemarle County elementary school. Students and staff at Greer Elementary School celebrated the completion of 100 hours of after-school tutoring. The school began the expanded program in November. More than 175 students took part, and the majority of teachers stayed late to give the kids extra instruction. "It made me feel like a new person," Greer student Zabian Dudley said. School officials say they are pleased with the first year of the expanded tutoring, and they hope to bring it back to the school next year. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| DoD provides unlimited tutoring Posted: 29 Apr 2010 07:20 AM PDT Thursday, April 29, 2010DoD provides unlimited tutoringTutor.com press release Servicemembers and their family members around the world can work with a certified, professional tutor online 24/7 to get help with homework, studying, test preparation, résumé writing, and more, the minute they need it, thanks to a DoD-funded contract with Tutor.com. Students of any age, from kindergartners to high school seniors, and adult learners, may use the service to connect to an expert tutor for one-to-one help in math, science, social studies and English. In terms of job assistance, the site can also help people write their résumés and prepare for interviews. Thousands of Army and Marine Corps family members have used the service to get online, live, one-to-one help over the past year and a half. The DoD now provides the program worldwide to all students, regardless of where they attend school. The Department of Defense provides this benefit to all U.S. active-duty servicemembers, U.S. military reservists, U.S. National Guard personnel on active duty in a deployed status, DoD civilians in a deployed status, and their family members. "Providing 24/7 academic and career support for military families during a time when so many parents have a deployed spouse has been an important and well-received benefit for Marine Corps and Army families," said Tommy T. Thomas, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Military Community and Family Policy. "We are pleased to expand this program to all U.S. military families and provide peace of mind that their children are never alone when it comes to learning - there is always a certified, professional tutor available to help." The Tutor.com network of more than 1,800 professional tutors and career specialists has delivered more than 5 million one-to-one tutoring and career sessions since 2001. Each tutor is certified through Tutor.com and has completed a third-party background check. All sessions are recorded and reviewed for quality control. Online homework help and career assistance is available at all military installation libraries and from any computer with internet access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by visiting tutor.com/military. Authorized users must follow instructions on the website for password and login information. Renae Robinson, a parent of three children, including a 10th and 5th-grader, attended a Tutor.com kickoff event Friday evening at Youth Services. "I thought it'd be good to go, because helping them with their homework can sometimes be quite a challenge," Robinson said. "In fact, I actually needed the service three days before the kickoff for help with a certain school project." Robinson lauded the program and brought in homework she and her child had difficulty with earlier in the week. "We applied what we learned from Tutor.com almost right away," she said. "Tutor dot com is an awesome program. I'm sure I'll use it at least once a week. And, my teenager who uses Youth Services can use it there, too. I want to thank the DoD for offering this service," Robinson said. Mary-Jo Chapman, Fort Belvoir's school liaison officer, said the tutoring through tutor.com uses instant messaging for students to communicate with online tutors. "It uses the technology that they're used to and it's what the kids want these days," she said. "Tutor.com is a great resource for everyone - single Soldiers, parents going back to school, students in grads K through12, people looking for career advancement, just everyone," Chapman said, adding that about 30 students and a few parents attended an orientation event Friday for the program. She said another tutor.com program will happen in the fall on Belvoir. Chapman encouraged everyone to use the program. "I had a mom tell me her child was excited about the tutor program after their child attended the information session," Chapman said. "It's such a great resource for families and it's absolutely free. It's also available all the time, so, there can't be any scheduling concerns with people who use it," Chapman said. Information about the Tutor.com service is available from the website, tutor.com/military; via e-mail to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address); or through Mary-Jo Chapman, school liaison officer, 805-9119. Staff reports contributed to this story.
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