Sentences with phrase «as tutoring children»

If you have a particular interest, such as tutoring children, contact local schools.

Volunteer service, such as tutoring children, can help older adults delay or reverse declining brain function, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Some ministry teams work in the community, doing such things as tutoring children, feeding the hungry and counseling the troubled.

Not exact matches

Teens may prefer service opportunities with friends as well as family members, like a group effort to tutor children in a homeless shelter.

For example, children's services — always a strong category — had segments that shrank (luxuries such as after - school enrichment programs), while other segments were as healthy as ever, including tutoring and child care.

As you may know, Compassion International has worked in India since 1968, and today, its programs support over 145,000 Indian children, providing critical tutoring, health and nutrition, and medical services...

Regardless of the educational options available or schooling choices made for their own children, Christians can serve and strengthen public schools through volunteering as tutors or reading partners.

These services in Indianapolis may include the Community Mental Health Center, the family courts, the juvenile courts, the Suicide Prevention Center, child guidance centers, senior citizens programs, rehabilitative workshops such as the Goodwill Industries, schools for the blind or deaf, recreation and tutoring, housing and employment projects.

The household or domestic chaplain, on the other hand, had a more definite clerical status and theoretically had the same duties and obligations to the household to which he was attached as a parson to his parish, 67 But more often his major responsibility was serving as tutor to the children of the family.

Our educational scholarships support private education tuition and tutoring for children in grades K - 12, as well as higher education tuition assistance for spouses and dependents.

In addition, your children will have the opportunity to make new friends, play games, and even receive tutoring as needed.

A good tutor will work to not only improve your child's grades, but will help to build their sense of self worth as they gain mastery over their studies.

The kinds of tutors available are as individual as the needs of your child, the flexibility of your budget, and your family's schedule.

I'm the swimming and bike riding tutor in my house, and my children — now 11 and seven — appreciate me as such.

As a teenager, she may have time to volunteer at a nursing home or she may have the skills to tutor younger children who struggle in school.

Sit down with your child's tutor and ask what can be done at home to reinforce the information on a regular basis, as well as give your child some «real - life» application.

«Is it the student alone,» Pope asked, «or are others, such as parents, tutors or friends, weighing in or doing the work for the child?»

I was also shocked by how these parents kept (or keep) the fact they hire tutors for their children a secret, as if their children were C.I.A agents.

They invest in programs that support children from birth through high school such as providing learning materials, summer camps and reading tutors.

You may have limited family time to spend with your child (by the time you get home from work and you eat dinner together as a family and go through your evening routines — make sure homework is done, school bags are packed for the next day, teeth are brushed, baths are done, and so on — there's very little time to sit and review schoolwork with your child); but you can try to look over what your child is doing with his tutor, and try to use free time on the weekends to incorporate fun into learning by playing math games, reading fun books and helping your child pick out books he likes to encourage reading and more.

Just as you would when looking for a babysitter for your school - age child, you may want to look for a tutor with energy and enthusiasm.

Check with your home education laws, though, as some expressly state that the parents are responsible for educating the home educated child, or must employ a registered teacher for tutoring purposes.

Last year through the initiative, the Youth Bureau funded such community service projects as a bicycle giveaway for Utica children; making Christmas cards to send to veterans and service members; soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Walk to end Alzheimer's and Making Strides to End Breast Cancer Walk; cleaning the yards of senior citizens; preparing food and serving meals at local food pantries; youth mentoring and tutoring and other community activities.

Foster Grandparents act as a role model, a mentor, and a friend helping children learn to read, providing one - on - one tutoring, and guiding children at a critical time in their lives.

Even as a child in the 1970s, I'm sure I could have punted my proto - skateboard to the library and self - tutored on any of the aforementioned topics — but I didn't.

I'm single, with no children, pets or ex's and as a private tutor...

Thank goodness he still has a chance, the film tells us, as it's all his fault so he'd better take steps to put things right — but did anyone ever actively decide they wanted Jerry Seinfeld to be their child's tutor in environmental fundamentalism?

Prior to the ruling, the California Department of Education had interpreted the state's education code to allow four ways for children to be taught at home: 1) qualify as a private school, 2) use a certified tutor, 3) officially enroll in a private school satellite program, or 4) enroll in a public school's independent study program.

Though parents and tutors have been teaching children in the home for centuries, in the late 1960s and 1970s there emerged for the first time in the United States a political movement that adopted this practice as a radical, countercultural critique of the public education system.

Mr. Ungerer, 58, previously served as the president and chief executive officer of the I Have A Dream Foundation, a New York City - based organization that provides college - preparatory tutoring and mentoring for children in low - income areas.

Education savings account (ESAs) provide parents with most or all of funds the state would have spent on a child's education, allowing parents to pay for public school alternatives, such as tutoring, online courses, private school tuition, or a combination of other educational services.

April 25, 2016 — Education savings account (ESAs) provide parents with most or all of funds the state would have spent on a child's education, allowing parents to pay for public school alternatives, such as tutoring, online courses, private school tuition, or a combination of other educational services.

Stopping would disrupt tutoring for tens of thousands of children, he said, an outcome he views as absurd and contrary to the intent of the No Child Left Behind Act.

I made it for some primary school children I tutor, but I think lots of secondary students would enjoy it as well.

But, most of all, I was inspired by the children with whom I worked as a tutor and VISTA volunteer while in college.

Thousands of college students are receiving financial aid to work as tutoring partners for young children who are having difficulty learning to read.

Structure volunteer programs within the school, such as opportunities for students to help out in life skills classes, read or tutor young children, assist in the computer lab, aid students in the library, provide support to students who are recovering from an injury or dealing with a medical condition, or gather work for students who miss school.

And if they didn't, parents would have the option to spend the money on another accredited educational program that suited their child's needs, such as tutoring.

Children could use these scholarships at any public or private school or for any educational program, such as private tutoring.

In one case, a volunteer tutor lived in the same neighborhood as one of the second graders being tutored, and the volunteer saw the child out at night, drinking, DeVita said.

The U.S. Department of Education's plan to grant states broad flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act will free up as much as $ 800 million in money school districts now must set aside for tutoring students, but may mark a significant financial blow to an education industry that has grown up around serving low - performing schools.

«This program is like an octopus; [it reaches out] and helps a lot of things, such as tutoring and children's self - esteem,» said Francine Deal, principal of Samuel W. Pennypacker Elementary School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

As a result, it has been suggested that wealthy families who use private tutors for this purpose should be taxed in order to help poorer children have access to the same help.

For instance, parents with children in schools identified as underachieving for two or more consecutive years are guaranteed the right to obtain supplemental educational services such as private tutoring, paid for with their children's share of federal Title I funds.

Students aren't taking advantage of tutoring options under the No Child Left Behind Act, schools are faltering when it comes to notifying parents about school transfer options under the law, and the number of Title I schools identified as needing improvement has nearly doubled in recent years, according to a study released last week by the Department of Education.

In a push to provide more children with free tutoring under the No Child Left Behind Act, the Department of Education is expanding two pilot programs that allow school districts to offer the extra assistance a year earlier than usual, and to serve as tutoring providers even if they themselves have been deemed poor performers.

The flexibility means mandates under No Child Left Behind, like a free tutoring program in the Rochester City School District known as Supplemental Educational Services, will no longer be required.

If the school fails to meet its learning goals for three straight years, your child is eligible for additional academic help, such as afterschool tutoring, paid for by the federal government.

As proven by Stanford's Sean Reardon, the widening of the achievement gap results from additional opportunities affluent parents provide their children out of the K - 12 environment: high - quality pre-K, tutoring, and after - school and summer enrichment.

The teacher collaborates with team members, such as other teachers, tutors, and assistant teachers, to review student progress and change instruction as needed to ensure high - progress, enriched learning for every child.