Tutor Learning Superheroes for Accelerate Northfield at Bridgewater Elementary School

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Accelerate Northfield is seeking community members to tutor elementary schools in reading and math. Volunteers are asked to work in schools at least one hour a week. After completing a required criminal background check, tutors are asked to review an online tutoring orientation. Then, they are pick tutoring opportunities that best fit their situation.

There is one requirement that Accelerate Northfield seeks in volunteers: they possess a desire to help students transform into learning superheroes. Tutors are asked to work in district schools at least one hour each week, although most put in more time than that.

Following a simple registration process (online signup through Accelerate Northfield and a background check administered by Northfield Public Schools), tutors are provided with access to Accelerate Northfield’s electronic database of tutor requests from district teachers. The database, called the matching site, is categorized by teacher, school, subject and tutoring times.

When a volunteer accepts a tutoring assignment, a confirmation email in sent to the volunteer and the teacher. Typically, the teacher and volunteer connect about the assignment prior to the tutor meeting with students.

On days they work with students, volunteer tutors sign in electronically in the main office of the school where they are working and are directed their classroom. They then meet with students and head to their tutoring location, whether that be a corner of a classroom or in the hallway outside a classroom.