The student tutors are wonderful - they really demonstrate a commitment to community service and an interest in helping children learn to read. We have three sites for our tutoring which takes place both within the school day and in the after school program. The tutors are in two elementary schools and in an outreach program. The children vary in age from early childhood through the early elementary grades. A very good partnership has developed among the sites.
Tutors have ongoing training and meet periodically to evaluate and reflect.
Information from the Web sites is an additional resource for the tutors. The program takes place in a local middle school in Harlem. We work with children ages 6-12 in an after school program. There are five established classrooms with 12-15 children each. The Columbia students, both work-study and volunteer, design and implement their own lessons within the classroom three days a week.