A Virtual Volunteer A profile of Lisa Delucca, a mentor who's found a high-tech way to guide students. By Nerissa Pacio Lisa DeLucca has found a way to volunteer for schools right from the convenience of her office. After hours, she attends night school with hopes of becoming a teacher. They serve as online tutors, helping students with homework, career planning and offering general advice.
Teachers give students assignments that involve communicating with their tele-mentors.
To monitor progress, teachers receive copies of all communication, and once a week tele-mentors complete evaluations. If you have the desire to help the community, this is absolutely the easiest way to do it. There are hundreds of mentors through the company and we're trying to recruit other companies now to do the same. He was in sixth grade and could only read at the second grade level. As I mentored him online, I learned he had difficulties with English.