Purpose: To help adults, 16 years of age or older, improve basic reading, math and language skills
Tutors encourage and support adult learners by:
- Reviewing work assigned by an instructor and providing feedback
- Validate the student’s decision to embrace education as a life strategy
- Partner with students in decisions relative to educational and career opportunities
- Meet with student on a regular basis
Location – Tutoring sessions scheduled at Adult Education Program sites throughout Central Georgia Technical College’s seven county area.
Hours – minimum two times a week for 1 hour each meeting;
Length of Commitment – Preferred initial commitment of 90-Days; schedule developed to support the needs of the student(s) and volunteer.
Training – A flexible training program is designed for each volunteer; on-going training support provided as needed. In the Barton Reading & Spelling Program, instructor manuals and DVDs also support each level of training.
Volunteer Qualifications:
- Age 18 or older;
- Respectful of student confidences;
- Complete online/classroom volunteer training program;
- Have good listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills;
Benefits
- Build skills to enhance your resume;
- Build problem solving skills;
- Give back to the community;
- Gain the respect and appreciation of the students and staff;
- Build a network among other committed members of your community;
- Gain empathy and understanding;
- Increased understanding and appreciation of different values, cultures, and lifestyles;
- Sense of belonging to a group focused on a common goal;
- Sense of accomplishment;
- Increase understanding and perception of different values, cultures, and lifestyles;
- Enhance creative problem solving skills;
- Change a life;
- Affect a family;
- Pass on a love of learning;
- Help others help themselves
PurposeTo help adults, 16 years of age or older, improve basic reading, math and language skills; review student workbooks and provide feedback for skills levels grade K-12th level.
Responsibilities
Tutors encourage and support adult learners by:
Reviewing work assigned by an instructor and providing feedback
Validate the student’s decision to embrace education as a life strategy
Partner with students in decisions relative to educational and career opportunities
Meet with student on a regular basis
Location – Tutoring sessions are scheduled at Adult Education Program sites throughout Central Georgia Technical College’s seven county area
Hours – minimum
Twice weekly for 1 hour each meeting; OR
Once weekly for 2 hours each meeting
Length of Commitment – Preferred initial commitment of 90-Days; adaptive and flexible schedule developed to support the needs of the student(s) and volunteer.
Training – A flexible training program is designed for each volunteer; evaluations monitor proficiency and on-going training support provided as needed. Online training materials supplement most training needs.
Volunteer Qualifications
- Age 18 or older;
- Respectful of student confidences;
- Complete online/classroom volunteer training program;
- Have good listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills
Benefits
Build skills to enhance your resume;
- Build problem solving skills;
- Give back to the community;
- Gain the respect and appreciation of the students and staff;
- Build a network among other committed members of your community;
- Gain empathy and understanding;
- Increased understanding and appreciation of different values, cultures, and lifestyles;
- Sense of belonging to a group focused on a common goal;
- Sense of accomplishment;
- Increase understanding and perception of different values, cultures, and lifestyles;
- Enhance creative problem solving skills;
- Change a life;
- Affect a family;
- Pass on a love of learning;
- Help others help themselves
Our students need you and we value your precious time. This program will allow you to serve people that want to take responsibility; you can show them how by taking responsibility for serving your community for one hour a week.
Learning coaches can contact a student by phone, e-mail or schedule face-to-face sessions to review student progress, establish goals and celebrate success. Internet-based instruction supplements Adult Education students with the resources that offer flexible options to accommodate challenges that make classroom instruction difficult. Distance learning tools have a proven track record of improving GED test scores, assisting students in attaining the Georgia work ready certificate and passing college entrance test. Because the programs are Internet-based, students have access to instruction from any computer connected to the Internet and can supplement classroom time to accelerate progress. The learning coach helps the student manage the distance learning experience.
If you answer yes to two or more of the following questions, you will make a great distance learning virtual volunteer by being a learning coach for adult education students.
- Do you have regular, ongoing access to the Internet?
- Do you value goal setting?
- Are you self-motivated?
- Do you like to catch someone doing something great?
- Do you value the concept of pay-it-forward?
Volunteering from a home computer is different from working on site with an organization for many obvious reasons: there is usually more flexibility in your time, a greater degree of independence, and working independently. For some, these differences make volunteering ideal.
Setting your own schedule is one of the chief joys of virtual volunteering. You may have considered volunteering before, but your schedule is too demanding. What would you say if you could serve your community, at home on a Saturday morning, in your pajamas with a cup of coffee?
