Mentoring at Carter and MacRae

Helping students with English and Math

Mentoring at Carter and MacRae Elementary School is about so much more than teaching. As you spend time with students, you get to know them and become a significant person in their lives. The in-classroom one-on-one attention helps nurture these children, many of whom come from families unable to help because of language deficiencies, second-shift jobs, and/or parental incarceration.

Academic Mentoring

Volunteers are assigned to a grade and a specific classroom teacher based on the volunteer’s interest and calendar as well as the classroom’s schedule and availability. Subjects include English-Language Arts (reading and writing) and Mathematics.

• Upon arrival at the classroom, the teacher gives the volunteer
  his/her assignment for that day.
• Mentors typically spend from 75 minutes to 3 hours on their
  designated day each week.
• A typical assignment might be tutoring three students for
  30 minutes each in the library.
• Helping students with English-Language Arts could include reading words, picture books or chapter books, and learning about character development.
• Mathematics includes counting to 100+, single-digit addition
  and subtraction, complex addition and subtraction, multiplication
  and those dreaded multiplication tables, division, entry-level
  algebra and geometry. (Students don’t start using calculators until 3rd or 4th grade.)

If you are undecided about what grade is best for you, brochures are available by subject & grade defining the specific items taught; these were designed to help you chose the grade that best suits you.