Service Learning programs-community service courses. Campus publications advertising the positions. Campus web sites. After the applicant pool is established, tutors are then screened according to established criteria. If possible, tutors are placed in the communities that they are from.
Tutors have the option of earning course credit.
Each Institution of Higher Education provides on campus tutor training in various degrees. The Tutor Training Coordinator, hired as part of this proposal, will assess in depth the consistency and quality of this training in planning the centralized tutor training program. This match will be done on the basis of common interests, languages, or special skills, as well as scheduling considerations. A Handbook for Volunteers , by Gay Su Pinnel and Irene C. Fountas. A half-time Tutor Training Coordinator who will train the 360 tutors on a quarterly basis throughout the year and assist the individual school sites in providing adequate tutor orientations and training for their specific programs.