Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Opportunities Adult Ed 101 Tutor
Purpose: To help adults, 16 years of age or older, improve basic reading, math and language skills
Tutors encourage and support adult learners by:
- Reviewing work assigned by an instructor and providing feedback
- Validate the student's decision to embrace education as a life strategy
- Partner with students in decisions relative to educational and career opportunities
- Meet with student on a regular basis
Location – Tutoring sessions scheduled at Adult Education Program sites throughout Central Georgia Technical College’s seven county area.
Hours – minimum two times a week for 1 hour each meeting;
Length of Commitment – Preferred initial commitment of 90-Days; schedule developed to support the needs of the student(s) and volunteer.
Training – A flexible training program is designed for each volunteer; on-going training support provided as needed. In the Barton Reading & Spelling Program, instructor manuals and DVDs also support each level of training.
Volunteer Qualifications:
- Age 18 or older;
- Respectful of student confidences;
- Complete online/classroom volunteer training program;
- Have good listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills;
Benefits
- Build skills to enhance your resume;
- Build problem solving skills;
- Give back to the community;
- Gain the respect and appreciation of the students and staff;
- Build a network among other committed members of your community;
- Gain empathy and understanding;
- Increased understanding and appreciation of different values, cultures, and lifestyles;
- Sense of belonging to a group focused on a common goal;
- Sense of accomplishment;
- Increase understanding and perception of different values, cultures, and lifestyles;
- Enhance creative problem solving skills;
- Change a life;
- Affect a family;
- Pass on a love of learning;
- Help others help themselves
To find out more, contact Gina Fry mfry@centralgatech.edu or call 478-757-2677.
Adult Basic/Secondary Education Tutor
Purpose
To help adults, 16 years of age or older, improve basic reading, math and language skills; review student workbooks and provide feedback for skills levels grade K-12th level.
Responsibilities
Tutors encourage and support adult learners by:
- Reviewing work assigned by an instructor and providing feedback
- Validate the student's decision to embrace education as a life strategy
- Partner with students in decisions relative to educational and career opportunities
- Meet with student on a regular basis
Location – Tutoring sessions are scheduled at Adult Education Program sites throughout Central Georgia Technical College's seven county area
Hours – minimum
- Twice weekly for 1 hour each meeting; OR
- Once weekly for 2 hours each meeting
Length of Commitment – Preferred initial commitment of 90-Days; adaptive and flexible schedule developed to support the needs of the student(s) and volunteer.
Training – A flexible training program is designed for each volunteer; evaluations monitor proficiency and on-going training support provided as needed. Online training materials supplement most training needs.
Volunteer Qualifications
- Age 18 or older;
- Respectful of student confidences;
- Complete online/classroom volunteer training program;
- Have good listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills
Benefits
- Build skills to enhance your resume;
- Build problem solving skills;
- Give back to the community;
- Gain the respect and appreciation of the students and staff;
- Build a network among other committed members of your community;
- Gain empathy and understanding;
- Increased understanding and appreciation of different values, cultures, and lifestyles;
- Sense of belonging to a group focused on a common goal;
- Sense of accomplishment;
- Increase understanding and perception of different values, cultures, and lifestyles;
- Enhance creative problem solving skills;
- Change a life;
- Affect a family;
- Pass on a love of learning;
- Help others help themselves
To find out more, contact Gina Fry mfry@centralgatech.edu or call 478-757-2677.
Distance Learning Coach (Virtual Volunteer)
Our students need you and we value your precious time. This program will allow you to serve people that want to take responsibility; you can show them how by taking responsibility for serving your community for one hour a week.
A learning coach contacts students by phone, e-mail or schedule face-to-face sessions to review student progress, establish goals and celebrate success. Internet-based instruction supplements Adult Education students with the resources that offer flexible options to accommodate challenges that make classroom instruction difficult. Distance learning tools have a proven track record of improving GED test scores, assisting students in attaining the Georgia work ready certificate and passing college entrance test. Because the programs are Internet-based, students have access to instruction from any computer connected to the Internet and can supplement classroom time to accelerate progress. The learning coach helps the student manage the distance learning experience.
If you answer yes to two or more of the following questions, you will make a great distance learning virtual volunteer by being a learning coach for adult education students.
- Do you have regular, ongoing access to the Internet?
- Do you value goal setting?
- Are you self-motivated?
- Do you like to catch someone doing something great?
- Do you value the concept of pay-it-forward?
Volunteering from a home computer is different from working on site with an organization for many obvious reasons: there is usually more flexibility in your time, a greater degree of independence, and working independently. For some, these differences make volunteering ideal.
Setting your own schedule is one of the chief joys of virtual volunteering. You may have considered volunteering before, but your schedule is too demanding. What would you say if you could serve your community, at home on a Saturday morning, in your pajamas with a cup of coffee?
English Literacy Program Conversational Partner
Volunteer Job Description – ELP Tutors/Conversation Partners
Job Summary
Volunteer tutors work with adults who are learning and developing the English language skills necessary for living and working in our community. Tutors work one-on-one with individuals who either desire to acquire English language skills or to prepare for taking the Citizenship Test.
Qualifications
Strong desire to improve the English language skills of students
Fluent in English and sensitive to cultural differences
Patience, understanding, flexibility, and an unceasingly positive attitude
Ability to serve as a tutor/conversation partner for 1-3 hours a week for three months
Responsibilities
- Complete 2-hour training.
- Commit to serve as a tutor/conversation partner for 1-3 hours a week for three months
- Tutor students on a regular basis
- Be punctual and notify the ELP Coordinator directly if you are unable to be present.
- Provide regular feedback to the ESP Coordinator on progress with your student
Contact
Yumi Kim
ykim@centralgatech.edu or 478-757-6671
AmeriCorps*VISTA (Volunteers In Service to America)
AmeriCorps is to our community what the Peace Corps has been to the world. Members of our community have made a commitment to serve a minimum of 35 hours a week. As a Vista volunteer, these members take an oath to work faithfully and diligently to lift people out of poverty.
Vista members that are assigned to the adult education program are facilitating neighborhood computer labs to promote preparation for the Georgia Work Ready assessment. As advocates of education, they serve the Adult Education program, Central Georgia Technical College, our community, and people seeking a hand up, and not a hand out.
http://www.americorps.gov/for_individuals/choose/vista.asp
Advisory Board Member
The State of Georgia regulations require the various programs of the Technical College System of establish a local adult education programs and to establish a local adult education advisory committee for each service delivery area.
Regulations require that the local advisory committee is actively involved in the ongoing operation of the adult education program. The major tasks and functions are:
- The identification and recommendation of goals, objectives, target groups, programs, curricula, and delivery methods for adult education programs.
- The development and recommendation of associated short and long-range plans.
- The performance of other activities as may be directed by the State Board to provide the most effective delivery of adult education programs.
Foster Grandparent
The Adult Education Program partners with Macon Bibb County EOC, Inc. to provide Foster Grandparent services to students age 16-18.
http://www.seniorcorps.gov/about/programs/fg.asp
Foster Grandparents devote their volunteer service entirely to disadvantaged or disabled youth. Across the country, Foster Grandparents help children in many ways:
- Offering emotional support to child victims of abuse and neglect;
- Tutoring children with low literacy skills;
- Mentoring troubled teenagers and young mothers; and
- Caring for premature infants and children with physical disabilities and severe illnesses.
Foster Grandparents are individuals age 55 and over who thrive on direct interaction with children and believe they can make a difference in their lives. Income-eligible Foster Grandparents receive a modest stipend to help offset the costs of volunteering.