This will allow us to train and place both Miami-Reads Tutorial volunteers and Reading Partners volunteers, depending on their time and interests. Experts from M-DCPS adult education will develop a parental involvement component. Each site will then coordinate a parental involvement plan specifically targeted to parents of children receiving instruction from America Reads tutors. Tutors work an average of 15 hours a week and each tutor, on average, provides services for nine children weekly. Prospective tutors undergo an initial three-hour orientation that describes the tutoring program and how it operates.
Tutors then have an opportunity to practice what they have learned.
These orientations and trainings take place on each college and university campus during September and January. In addition, reading coordinators and first grade teachers at all 42 America Reads sites and trained and attends one in-service per semester. Tutors complete bi-weekly progress logs to provide feedback to project coordinators.