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3 people are interested
Empower young learners as an Early Learning Tutor!
ORGANIZATION: Community Action Partnership of Ramsey & Washington Counties
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3 people are interested
Interested in this opportunity? Learn more & apply here: https://join.readingandmath.org/careers-home/jobs/37686
Thousands of kids need extra help building a strong foundation in early literacy and numeracy skills before Kindergarten. Take action as an Early Learning Tutor at our Battle Creek Head Start this October and help kids emerge stronger and ready for school.
As an Early Learning Tutor, you’ll spend your days helping kids ages 3-5 to talk, read, write, sing, and play in order to develop early literacy and math skills. Working closely with a teacher in a classroom, you’ll enhance daily activities and help our youngest learners build both skills and confidence.
Community Action Partnership is proud to partner with Early Learning Corps to bring 2 Early Learning Tutors to Battle Creek. This is a stipended AmeriCorps member position with Early Learning Corps, where members serve at sites throughout the U.S. to help our youngest learners get ready for school!
Duties & Responsibilities: Assist classroom teachers to support student activities and fulfill the Head Start classroom philosophy. This may include reading stories, reviewing the alphabet, teaching kids how to read and write, chaperoning field trips and family fun events.
- Use proven strategies to help students build their skills and confidence.
- Spend your days helping children play rhyming games, write their names, learn letter sounds, and develop counting skills.
- Collaborate with coaches to monitor student progress and see what’s working.
- Conduct skill assessments and enter student scores into data management software.
- Respond to feedback and commit to continuous improvement through coaching, training and professional development.
- Represent Early Learning Corps at school-sponsored activities and share your experience with the wider community to help build awareness.
Benefits: The satisfaction of incorporating service into our lives and making a difference in our community. Spending time with energetic youngsters will brighten your day!
Qualifications:
Early Learning Corps takes ordinary people and trains them to be great tutors. Anyone can become a tutor as long as they have a passion to take action for kids - and meet the following minimum qualifications.
By the time they begin their service, our tutors are:
- Dependable and have a history of good attendance
- Able to understand and follow instructions
- Open to making improvements based on feedback
- Are energized by young learners and want to help them discover new things.
- Eager to work collaboratively with the classroom teaching team.
- Competent with basic computer skills (like email and navigating online)
- Fluent in English for speaking, reading, and writing
- 18 years of age or older with a high school diploma or equivalent
- A citizen, national, or lawful permanent resident of the United States*
- Able to successfully complete a background check
*Applicants who have received deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are not eligible to serve as AmeriCorps members at this time.
Interested in this opportunity? Learn more & apply here: https://join.readingandmath.org/careers-home/jobs/37686
Email join@ampact.us or call 866-859-2825 for any questions about Early Learning Corps! For any questions about Community Action, please email volunteers@caprw.org.
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About Community Action Partnership of Ramsey & Washington Counties
Location:
450 Syndicate St. North, Saint Paul, MN 55104, US
Mission Statement
The mission of Community Action Partnership is to invest in people experiencing poverty to build generational prosperity.
Description
Community Action Partnership of Ramsey & Washington Counties is part of a national nonprofit network that helps 17 million low-income Americans annually achieve economic security. Closer to home, we help low-income households in Ramsey and Washington counties achieve success each year.
For over 50 years, Community Action has provided a local, flexible, single point of entry for programs that lift people up. Whether it's early childhood education, transportation, saving for a home, getting an education or raising awareness, we strive to help people become independent and have a voice in our community - and to make America a better place to live.
At Community Action, we continuously stay in touch with the needs of our community, looking for new ideas and new understandings about the issues that low-income individuals and families face.
Volunteers: We match volunteers with opportunities that are meaningful and meet their scheduling needs. By helping those in need, our volunteers develop new skills, gain practical and rewarding experience, build teams, and promote active community participation. Volunteers at Community Action reach out, help people become more self-sufficient, and change people's lives - one person, one family, one neighbor at a time. https://caprw.org/take-action/volunteer.html
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
2181 Suburban AveSaint Paul, MN 55119
DATE POSTED
October 11, 2023
SKILLS
- Tutoring
- Literacy / Reading
- Teaching / Instruction
- English as a Secondary Language (ESL)
- Child Development
- Reading / Writing
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Serve as a tutor and receive a scalable perks package based on your time commitment of 35, 25,18 or 10 hours per week.