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High school volunteer describes RAISE literacy tutoring helping early-grade students improve reading and spelling
Summary
A high school volunteer told the meeting that the RAISE tutoring program pairs volunteers with small groups of first- through fourth-grade students and provides hands-on materials; the volunteer reported about 100 hours of summer tutoring and said students became more self-sufficient.
Commenter, a high school student volunteer with the RAISE tutoring program, described the program and her experience during public comment. "The RAISE program is essentially a tutoring literacy program for students, mostly first, second, third grade, and some fourth graders to help them improve on their reading, their spelling, and their writing," she said.
She said volunteers typically work with three to five students at a time and that teachers identify the students' needs. "As a mentor, RAISE provides tons of materials like magnet boards, whiteboards, markers, tons of fun activities to help make learning about literacy easy and fun," the commenter said. She said volunteers use those materials at their discretion to support spelling, writing and reading work the teacher requests.
The commenter said she logged nearly 100 hours of tutoring over the summer and worked with some students on a near-daily basis. "Toward the end of the summer, the students were, like, self sufficient. They would come in, they would take their magnet board, and they would go to spelling words and get it to advanced words quickly on their own," she said, adding that she would "100% recommend this" for other students who want volunteering experience.
She also noted benefits for volunteers: interacting with young students gives experience in communicating and relaying instructions. The remarks focused on the volunteer tutoring model, materials provided, the small-group format, and observed student progress; there were no formal actions or votes attached to the comment.
