Sentences with phrase «providing volunteer tutors»

A plan for providing volunteer tutors for children from disturbed homes who are potential school dropouts has been implemented by the Friendly Visitor workers.

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In this scheme, churches would monitor the progress of their young parishioners from kindergarten through 12th grade and find tutors or provide volunteers qualified to teach subjects in which children need help.

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.

In addition, PASS schools are paired with business and community - based partners that provide a variety of tutoring and other volunteer services and support.

A support program was established for students in need of support and volunteers worked one - on - one with students in weekly sessions providing tutoring and feedback and ensuring that they had the resources needed to complete homework.

The mentors volunteer their time, typically meeting once a week with each student they mentor (some of them work with two or three students) to help advise them academically, provide tutoring, or just offer some inspiration about their potential career paths.

Senior Corps» Foster Grandparents program provides an opportunity for volunteers age 55 and older to serve as mentors and tutors for students.39 In 2016, an estimated 24,000 Foster Grandparents volunteers served approximately 200,000 students.40 Similarly, in 2016, AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers were approved to provide capacity - building assistance to more than 2,900 education - related project sites.41 Cutting funding for the CNCS would mean eliminating a substantial amount of necessary support for traditional public and public charter schools and would hurt low - income students across the country.

During her undergraduate years at Columbia, she provided SAT tutoring and additional after - school support to low - income students on a volunteer basis.

Reading intervention services may include the use of: special reading teachers; trained aides; volunteer tutors under the supervision of a certified teacher; computer - based reading tutorial programs; aides to instruct in - class groups while the teacher provides direct instruction to the students who need extra assistance; and extended instructional time in the school day or school year for these students.

Harvard University provides GPA with frequent volunteers, including the Harvard Tutoring Program with students from Harvard Business School and volunteer days through the Institute of Politics.

First, successful volunteer tutoring programs assign a reading specialist to write and supervise lessons and to provide ongoing training and feedback to the tutors.

We do this by recruiting, training and supporting volunteer tutors who provide free, long - term, one - on - one instruction using research - based methodology.

Volunteers are called upon to provide their skills and ideas in our learning communities and day - to - day activities as chaperones, club leaders, sponsors, tutors, mentors, classroom aides, coaches, and much more.

At the Upper Schools (grades 6 - 8), volunteers provide tutoring support in before and after school Learning Centers.

They volunteer countless hours to Habitat for Humanity efforts, mentor and tutor local children at the center, provide financial planning and insurance seminars for seniors, and raise money for the local Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Volunteered time to personally tutor student groups and provide them with in - depth understanding of coursework.

Provided screening and approval of applicants for government housing grant program, recruited and screened tutors and mentors for volunteer program, and conducted focus groups, and fair housing advocacy.

For example, New York volunteers provided 45 - minute tutoring / mentoring sessions to children 4 times a week, whereas Boston volunteers provided 40 - minute sessions 2 times per week on average, and Port Arthur volunteers provided 25 - to 45 - minute sessions 3 days a week.