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Volunteer Tutors Organisation

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The Volunteer Tutors Organisation (VTO) is a charity that provides one-to-one tuition across Glasgow to children and young...

1-1 Tutor

Ongoing

100 places
VTO provides 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. 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.

What will I be doing?

  • Working one to one with a young person who requires support with their learning either online or face to face. You can choose to take part in our QuESTS programme (Qualifications for Every Student Through Tutor Support) which is a form of tutoring aimed at helping a young person achieve a qualification (a member of our team will discuss the different opportunities available upon application)
  • 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.
  • You can ask to work with more than one pupil if you have the time available.
  • 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.

Contact Name

Hilary McDonald

Benefits to self

satisfaction of giving something back and helping to reduce the attainment gap; develop new skills; gain experience in teaching; tutoring experience working with children and young people; enhanced CV and a volunteer reference is available to you after 6 months of volunteering with us.

Benefits to others

Feedback on our services has shown that 1:1 tuition can markedly improve children's academic performance, develop their social skills, increase their motivation to do well and grow their self-esteem.

Location

Glasgow

Training available

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.

Hours per week

1

PVG required

Yes

Support and supervision details

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.
  • TypeChildren, Education, Young People

Employability skills

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