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Tutor
ORGANIZATION: LIFE AND BASKETBALL
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5 people are interested
Purpose of Volunteer Opportunity: Create a positive learning environment, empowering children to reach their full potential by mentoring and providing academic support
Description: Life and Basketball (LAB) is a 501(c)(3) registered non-profit dedicated to increasing opportunities for underserved and at risk youth. Using basketball as a transformative tool, our programs are innovative and focus on increasing academic performance, providing life skills and strengthening social and emotional competencies. LAB is looking for tutors with a passion for empowering youth and facilitating learning. Tutors assist middle schoolers with homework, preparing for upcoming exams and lead targeted lessons and exercises. Tutors work one-on-one or with groups of children.
Responsibilities:
- Tutor middle school children in MATH and Literacy related subjects
- Be responsible for the children while in class room
- With support from LAB staff develop together with each participant individual academic goal plan
- Adhere to LAB policies, rules, and objectives
- Report any problems with student behavior to LAB
- Be accessible by phone or email.
- Lead by example and where possible mainstream SEL principles in teaching
Qualifications:
- Previous teaching, mentoring or tutoring experience
- Desire to work with children
- Possess organizational skills, patience, maturity and dependability
- Sound character, strong morals, values and personal ethics
- Previous experience with programs focused on building social and emotional skills desired and/or the willingness to learn how to incorporate social and emotional learning in teaching
- Be 18 years old and have a high school diploma.
Requirements
- Completed any necessary LAB teacher training
- Completed volunteer packet and background check
- Signed teacher job description and contract
Time Commitment: Our spring program is expected to run about 8 weeks, between mid-April and mid-June. Coaches would volunteer from 1 - 5 hours per week. The program is offered after school so volunteer slots would likely be between 3:30 - 5:30pm.
To Apply: Please send cover letter and resume to jason.naum@lifeandbasketball.org
This is the perfect opportunity for teachers who are interested in working with under-resourced middle school children and giving them the opportunity to succeed on and off the court. Teachers will have opportunities to learn more about social emotional learning (SEL) programs and how to mainstream SEL in teaching and will be connected to a network of caring and dedicated volunteers. Volunteers will also receive training on how to recognize and report child abuse (the course is approved by the Departments of Human Services, Education and State and is eligible for Act 48 credits).
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About LIFE AND BASKETBALL
Location:
520 RUTGERS AVE, SWARTHMORE, PA 19081, US
Mission Statement
LAB’s Mission is to increase opportunities for underserved youth to succeed. Using basketball as a transformative tool, LAB’s programs focus on improving academic performance and social and emotional skills, while at the same time demonstrating the importance of community engagement. Our Vision is for all children to have equal opportunities and the social and emotional competence necessary to face the challenges of life. We hope to be able to reach more and more children using our unique methodology and four pillar curriculum that acknowledges the advantages of both classroom and sports based strategies to build social emotional competence and academic performance and combines them both.
Description
LAB is a 501(c)(3) registered nonprofit organization that grew out of the Chair and Vice Chair’s love of basketball and the simple idea that all children should have the same opportunities to succeed. Co-founders Jason Naum and Devin Adams understood the transformative power of basketball and set out to use it as a vehicle to increase academic performance and social and emotional competence in underserved and at risk youth.
Children participating in quality Social Emotional Learning (SEL) programs improve achievement by an average of 11 percentile points, exhibit more prosocial behaviors (such as empathy, sharing, and kindness), have less anxiety and stress, and improved attitudes about others and themselves.
LAB’s unique four pillar curriculum relies on a combination of basketball, mentoring, academic support, and community engagement, and acknowledges the advantages of both classroom and sports based strategies to build academic performance and social emotional competencies and combines them both.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
1798 W Hunting Park AvePhiladelphia, PA 19140
DATE POSTED
February 2, 2018
SKILLS
- Child Development
- Mentoring
- Literacy / Reading
- Math / Science Instruction
- Teaching / Instruction
- Tutoring
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- From 1 - 5 hours per week