Online Volunteer Tutor 1-1

• Volunteer Tutors Organisation (VTO) - Falkirk

• VO92543

VTO provide free tutor support to children and young people aged 8-18, to help tackle the poverty related attainment gap in Scotland. We work with young people from diverse backgrounds including, but not limited to, those who are care-experienced, those who speak English as an additional language (EAL) or those faced with perceived barriers to learning, e.g. Autism Spectrum Disorder or Attention Deficit Disorder; however, any child who is struggling to engage with education and is falling significantly behind in class, could be helped by our 1:1 tutoring services. Our volunteers focus on developing a person-centred tutoring experience through relationship building to instil confidence and increase motivation and educational attainment. Volunteers from a range of diverse backgrounds and experiences are welcome.

Our volunteers work one-on-one with a young person who needs support with their learning online. You can choose to tutor once a week, helping primary or secondary pupils re-engage with schoolwork and build skills in Math or English, or opt for twice-weekly sessions to assist secondary students preparing for formal National 3, 4, or 5 qualifications. The role also involves:
-Relationship building and mentoring
-Monitoring and recording progress of learning and keeping in contact with your assigned VTO Learning Communities Coordinator
-Supporting learning in English and/or Maths and potentially other subjects, dependant on experience and pupil need
-Sourcing and creating engaging ways to support pupils’ skills and learning
-Subjects include English and Maths, and potentially others subjects

You don't need any formal teaching or mentoring qualifications to become a tutor, but we ask for creativity and enthusiasm to communicate and work with young people and for the tutors to be supportive, empathetic and non-judgemental.

We want to support our volunteers to develop their skills and experience during their time with us and some of the benefits of joining our volunteer team include:
-Satisfaction of giving something back and reducing the attainment gap
-Gain teaching, tutoring and youth work experience useful in careers working with young people
-Developing new enhanced communication skills
-Enhanced personal statement/CV
-Fulfil volunteering requirement of Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme/Saltire Awards scheme if eligible
-Reference after 6 months and training provided

If you think this role could be for you, then we'd love to hear from you!

Experience required

You don't need any formal teaching or tutoring experience to become a tutor, just a desire to support young people to reach their full potential. This includes: good relationship-building skills; ability to support young people with a lack of confidence/motivation; ability to be non-judgmental, empathetic, and supportive.

Travel details

You can take part in this volunteering opportunity from anywhere and the opportunity is entirely online. To tutor online, you will need access to a PC, laptop, iPad or tablet with a microphone and camera, and access to Google Chrome. A stable internet connection is also needed.

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Training details

Volunteer induction training is delivered in a dynamic and interactive online session and a timetable of additional (optional) training is made available throughout the year focussing on topics such as dyslexia, Autism, Care Experience and EAL.
You will be allocated a VTO Learning Communities Coordinator to support you whilst volunteering.
You will have full access to our online tutor forum where tutors share ideas on how to get the best of their tutoring experience.
Induction training for all volunteers that consists of 3 hours of materials that a volunteer goes through in their own time and a 3-hour training session on Zoom with a group of volunteers.

Restrictions

Minimum age: 18

Availability

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Frequency & commitment

Usually 1 hour per week time commitment for tutoring with some additional time for learning material preparation. We ask for a minimum commitment of 6 months from being matched with a young person and ideally until the end of the academic year.

Volunteers (aged 18-25) taking part in this opportunity are eligible to claim Saltire Awards hours for their activity.
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