Be an Embedded Writing Tutor: Help Make a Women and Politics Course Student-Centered

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We are looking for a writing tutor to support a Women and Politics course. You would attend class once a week (either Tues or Thurs 2-3:15PM ) and the rest of the work would be done flexibly from your own home. This is about a 3-5 hour commitment a week.

The instructor has built a class where:

• students engage with the material in a low stakes manner (through a Wordpress) that extends the conversation outside of class, provides a foundation for their conversations in class, and gives insight for you, the tutor, on how the students are performing, what writing issues they have, and what workshops you should run
• You would monitor the blog (by making notes in an excel sheet which has already been created). (Note: students have already been invited to the blog, and an audit of who has access has already been done. We have also completed a survey that helps us better understand who the students are.) You would periodically audit the blog, but week-to-week you'd use it as a source of information about what big picture writing issues the students might be having trouble with. (Our intention is to have the instructor create a rough rubric for you to follow in reviewing the blogs for each week. You don't need to grade anything, or read all the posts. You'd just be getting a general sense of how students are answering and if there is a common pattern of error/misunderstanding that we need to address. Maybe it's around citation, or analysis, or integrating the text, etc.)
• you would do in-class presentations about writing topics tailored around the content students are working on, and for those topics that can't be accommodated in class, you would create videos that students can watch ( Khan Academy style--about 2-4 mins in length using Google Hangouts on Air). You would also create a quiz that would go with that video. We'd be able to track analytics and see how students are performing.

About Us: CT is the Colin Powell School’s volunteer tutoring program, and a community organization that provides volunteer tutoring support to programs across Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. We work with afterschool enrichment programs, housing projects, high schools, adult education programs, and a nano-tech lab. As a tutor, you can work with students between 5-60 years old.

No formal tutoring experience necessary. We provide flexible training (days, evenings, weekends; in-person and virtual).

As a City Tutor, you can be connected to a mentor from an industry you are interested in who can help you with the job search, with drafting professional documents, and preparing for your next career steps.
Commitment: 2-5 hours at one of our partner sites, weekly

Requirements: A- or A in subject area you’d like to tutor. Overall GPA above 3.0. Or have graduated with a degree in sociology or related fields.