Beyond the Right Answer: Effective Homework Help
The latest in the series of LEARNS training videos is designed to help train national service members and community volunteers working with children as homework coaches. The video provides best practices for homework help program design and implementation by examining an AmeriCorps after-school program in New York City, Groundwork for Youth. Viewers gain insight into ways to train and support adults working with children, how to establish programmatic structure and routines, and useful strategies for helping children become independent and organized in completing their homework.
Beyond the Right Answer: Effective Homework Help is available free of charge to programs of the Corporation for National and Community Service. To order your free copy, e-mail rc-shipping@etr.org.
Reading for Meaning: Good Practice in Volunteer Tutoring
The latest in the series of LEARNS Tutor Training Videos, this 22-minute video is designed to help train volunteers working with children who struggle to read fluently. The video introduces you to Emily, a second-grader, whose lack of fluency interferes with her reading comprehension, and includes a discussion guide with suggestions and tips for using the video to train tutors. The guide elaborates on the issues Emily has with fluency and comprehension and the multiple ways the tutor works to help her overcome these challenges.
Reading for Meaning is available free of charge to programs of the Corporation for National and Community Service. To order your free copy, e-mail rc-shipping@etr.org.
This 30-minute documentary features four tutoring projects that include community and national service volunteers from National Senior Service Corps, AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps*VISTA and Learn and Serve America. Video portraits highlight characteristics of program success, identified through existing research and supported by professional wisdom from practitioners.
Download the Viewer's Guide and Worksheets here. (pdf format)
Training Videos
The LEARNS partners offer a series of videos and companion guides designed to enhance training for national service tutors. The following videos are available to preview:
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Note: To watch the videos you need to have Quicktime installed in your computer. You can download Quicktime for free at: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/. The download and installation is very simple and will take only few minutes. |
If you are a national service program staff member, you can order the complete video(s) by e-mailing rc-shipping@etr.org or by calling 1-800-860-2684 ext. 142. |
