Author: cearetired

Children’s Tutoring Initiative

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Children’s Tutoring Initiative is a K-4th grade literacy tutoring program focused on Columbus City Elementary Schools. Beginning in October and running through April, tutors work one-on-one with a student who needs a little help, many principals refer to these students as “bubble kids” (mine has been one of these!). Charleys Kids Foundation works to connect volunteer tutors to partner elementary schools to help children improve reading.

Tutors are asked to volunteer 1 hour per week and work with students for 30 minutes. Even though your association is professionally trained and experts, we will ask they attend a 90 minute training session before the school year and complete a background check if needed (Charleys Kids covers the cost).

This year we will be adding the Dibels assessment for data collection and having retired teachers would be a great benefit to students, schools, and the program. As we push to expand the program we also need to push for more volunteers.

For additional information, contact WWW.TUTORCOLUMBUS.ORG or WWW.TUTORCOLUMBUS.ORG/VOLUNTEER

Intern Supervisor Needed

cearetired

Hello! I am a program manager in English Education at OSU, and I work each year with our intern teachers. This year, we are in need of an experienced educator to help with supervision. The job of a supervisor is to observe interns as they work in their placement classrooms, support and facilitate the relationships with the Mentor Teachers, and lead regular check-ins (generally every other week or so) with their interns. These can be held on campus; but we’ve also had supervisors hold them off campus if they choose – in a coffee shop, library, or more convenient location. It’s a less “structured” job than teaching a regular class, which allows people to do other things and have some autonomy to fit the job to their schedules. I know this is short notice, given that we start back in just a few weeks, but I’m wondering if any of your retired members with ELA education experience would be interested in this work? We have a wonderful group of faculty and graduate students.  If there is interest, I’d be more than happy to chat by email or phone to answer any questions as well (614-688-3407).  Thank you so much for considering this. All the best,Jenell Igeleke Penn