Flexible Schedule
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San Francisco, CA 94102
Project Read is the adult literacy program of the San Francisco Public Library. Since 1983, volunteer tutors have been trained to work one-to-one with English-speaking adults seeking to improve their basic reading and writing skills. Volunteers need to complete a tutor training and make a year-long commitment to tutoring. Our training equips tutors with a variety of teaching techniques and strategies designed to help adult learners improve their reading and writing skills. After training, we ask that our tutors meet with an adult learner for a 1-2 hour session once a week. Instructional materials and staff support are provided. If you are interested in volunteering with us, please fill out the volunteer interest form here: on.sfpl.org/vol-pr
Date Posted: Oct 10, 2024
Flexible Schedule
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San Francisco, CA 94102
Spend just a couple hours a week and help ensure success for a young person! San Francisco Public Library is helping young people catch up to grade-level reading and strengthen their skills through our FOG Readers tutoring program. We are seeking volunteers to work one-on-one with students in Grades 1-4, using the FOG (Free Orton-Gillingham) Readers method, which employs multisensory learning, phonics-based instruction, and other tools to demystify the process of reading. As a volunteer tutor, you will meet with your student once a week (online or at a library location) in the late afternoon, evenings, or on the weekend. SFPL will provide all materials and training, as well as offer ongoing support. Volunteers should: Commit to the training sessions and at least one hour of tutoring per week for at least 6 months, with up to one hour of preparation before each lesson. Enjoy working with a young person who will need patience and encouragement Follow a structured, phonics-based curriculum designed to fill in learning gaps for remedial readers Be at least 15 years of age Provide fingerprints for a background check ( requires SSN; cost is covered by the program) Be excited to share a passion for reading (and sympathize with the frustration of struggling to read)! Benefits of volunteering: Make a meaningful, lasting difference for a child by building critical literacy skills. Serve your community Learn valuable skills tutoring and mentoring that can be applied to other areas of life Interested in helping out? Our next training will be held in October 2024. To start the process, please fill out an interest form here: on.sfpl.org/vol-fog
Date Posted: Oct 10, 2024
Flexible Schedule
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San Francisco, CA 94118
San Francisco Public Library offers library card holders up to $2.00 a day free printing at each of our 28 locations. After that, it's 10 cents a page (40 cents for color). The Richmond neighborhood location is seeking volunteers to assist patrons who need help with printing, and other basic-to-intermediate tech questions. Examples of the general (non-printing related) tech help that is requested: setting up an email account using a mouse (functions of left/right/double clicks) navigating social media accounts (posting pix to FB, making a simple X (Twitter) post, etc) attaching/uploading files/photos to email/text basic document formatting (reviewing Home and Layout menus in Microsoft Word, or Format menu in Google Docs) The main printing issues patrons request assistance with are: signing onto a public computer using their library card number and PIN signing into an email account on a public computer at the library downloading and saving attachments from email saving an email as a PDF uploading those documents to https://sfpl.org/print choosing options such as: number of copies, single/double-sided, or color printing navigating these tasks on their phone, which may save files to an obscure location If these seem like fairly simple, straightforward tasks to you, great. That skill level is half of what we’re looking for. The other half is a deep empathy and appreciation for the humanity of pre-digital generations. People grew up and were competent, capable adults for decades, confidently navigating a world filled with tangible stuff: The telephone's wire ran down the wall and out of the house to attach to a wooden pole. Typewriter keys struck paper to create a document. Record player needles ran over a groove on a vinyl disk. Photos were on film and came back with tiny negatives tucked in a sleeve in case you needed to order additional copies. Calls were made using the white pages (people) or the yellow pages (businesses), appointments scheduled by real people, and written down in a yearly planner in pencil (tentative) or pen (confirmed). And now... all those once-concrete daily tasks are literally in a cloud, accessed by smearing and bumping a finger around on glowing glass or clicking series of menus that don’t even say "Menu" but rather look like = or . . . or > < ^ ⌄ and are tweaked with every "update." For better or for worse, the logistics of life used to be "out there" and now, much of it is shrouded behind an inscrutable screen. Now, many older adults adapted, picked up tech as a second language, and continue to thrive. But for those who haven't, and who are facing a stressful, immediate need to sign a hardcopy, get a boarding pass, or print out medical instructions? Where are they going to go, if not the library? And when they turn up, we’d like them to find calm, patient, respectful help. Library users are often called "patrons" but we do not patronize them; assistance is offered and accepted as equals. So we aren’t looking for pity, we’re looking for understanding and patience (if you’ve read this far, you passed the first test). Signing into a computer can take 5-10 minutes. Signing into email can take 5-10 minutes. Finding an email can take 5-10 minutes. Sending, retrieving, and printing a document may take 5-10 minutes. And there’s a half hour gone by to accomplish something that you could probably do in 30 seconds. But in that 30 minutes, you saved someone's bacon, preserved their dignity, and made the next time a little easier. If you feel that’s worth your time, please click that "I want to help" button for further details.
Date Posted: Aug 9, 2024
