Our Spring 2024 Math & Literacy tutoring sessions will kick off in January and we are expecting a high number of applications from our families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our tutor applications for the Spring 2024 session are OPEN until January 7th, 2024!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Spring session runs from January 22nd – May 5th. Tutors and students meet the same day and time each week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are here to tell you why none of that is true and you CAN be a successful tutor! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Literacy:<\/strong> Literacy Tutoring Information<\/a> Fact:<\/strong> When you apply to tutor you share the days and times that work for you! We then match you with a student who has the same availability. Of course,<\/strong> we understand that a work trip may come up, you have a planned vacation or illness hits; we are flexible! <\/strong>Our goal is to get 12-15 lessons in for each session. You and your learner will meet the same day and time each week for your sessions. It\u2019s easy to plan your week with the consistency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fact: <\/strong>95% of our tutors have NEVER tutored before! They just had a desire to want to help their community. We welcome tutors ages 18+ and have had high school seniors, college students, working professionals and retirees who have ALL had incredible tutoring experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fact:<\/strong> The majority of people that come to volunteer with has never even met someone with Down syndrome before. The training and resources we provide you are robust and easy to understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s a summary of what to expect as you train to become a tutor: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fact:<\/strong> It\u2019s the beginning of Fall and you can CHOOSE how you want to spend your time. We hear time and time again how impactful the experience is for both tutors and students<\/strong>. Here is one of our favorite quotes from our last session when the student was asked what his favorite part of tutoring was: \u201cMy favorite part of tutoring is YOU\u201d (meaning his tutor).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The pride and excitement our students feel with increasing their skills AND forming true friendships with each other is magical. Having solid one-on-one time each week allows for a special bond to form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fact: We NEED YOU! <\/strong>We are 99% volunteer-run and can\u2019t offer our programming without our incredible and dedicated volunteers. We also have returning tutors from session to session!! We love this because it shows they are having a great experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n THANK YOU<\/strong> for considering taking this leap of faith and trying something new. You will not regret it and will have changed for the better by the end of the session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WE NEED YOU Our Spring 2024 Math & Literacy tutoring sessions will kick off in January and we are expecting a high number of applications from our families. Our tutor applications for the Spring 2024 session are OPEN until January 7th, 2024! The Spring session runs from January 22nd – May 5th. Tutors and students…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":141695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111,52,109,22,1547,23,62,57,63,1522,64],"class_list":["post-141743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-freeprograms","tag-gigisbelieves","tag-inspiration-courage-tutoring-freeprograms","tag-down-syndrome","tag-education","tag-gigis-playhouse","tag-hoffman-estates","tag-literacy","tag-math","tag-special-education","tag-tutoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Links to learn more and apply: <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Math:<\/strong> Math Tutoring Information<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nMyth:<\/strong> It would never fit in my schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Myth:<\/strong> I\u2019ve never done it before so I shouldn\u2019t even try<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Myth: <\/strong>I don\u2019t know anything about people with Down syndrome<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Myth:<\/strong> It\u2019s Fall and I don\u2019t have any idea what my plans are for Spring<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Myth<\/strong>: I\u2019m sure someone else will do it<\/h3>\n\n\n\n