Mission
Everyone can learn. Everyone has a right to Literacy. We go to where the people are, rather than expecting them to come to us. We value innovation. We encourage people to bring us new ideas about learning. Students decide what they want to learn and how they want to learn it. Our tutors are there to help them do this. We are committed to working with people who have not been given adequate learning opportunities elsewhere.
Programs & Tutor Responsibilities
Read for Fun (R4F)
In Read for Fun, you'll be paired one-on-one or in small groups with learners from the local Kingston community and you'll help them with language literacy, homework, and anything else they need! Read for Fun is affiliated with United for Literacy, an organization dedicated to improving literacy skills and spreading literacy awareness across Canada.
Responsibilities:
Working with groups and other tutor-learner pairs, communicating with parents and learners about their learning needs
Helping learners achieve their goals and tracking their progress
Creating lesson plans to help achieve the learner's goals
Literacy Outreach (LO)
Literacy Outreach works with local non-profit shelters like Lily's Place as well as with Immigrant Services Kingston & Area (ISKA) to provide free tutoring services oriented towards literacy. As a tutor, you'll be working one-on-one or in small groups with learners from diverse backgrounds. As a tutor, it is essential to foster a safe environment for all learners.
Responsibilities:
Helping learners develop their own goals
Assisting learners to succeed and grow
Maintaining empathy, compassion, and sensitivity for those in different circumstances
Math is Might (MiM)
Developed during the pandemic, Math is Might focuses on literacy in mathematical subjects. As a tutor, you'll be working either one-on-one or in small groups to help high school students with their understanding in math. This helps strengthen students' skills and confidence, with the new de-streamlined curriculum.
Responsibilities:
Reviewing the Ontario mathematics curriculum
Helping learners with challenging schoolwork
Creating lesson plans to help achieve the learner's goals
Fall hiring is now live!
Tutor Hiring
We are currently looking for tutors to join three different programs. You may apply to and work under as many of the following programs as you'd like!
Read for Fun
Literacy Outreach
Math is Might
Application deadlines are extended! Keep sending us your forms and we look forward to reading them!
TO APPLY TO BE A TUTOR: Download (as a Word document) to fill out the application to the right and send it to apps.qsliteracy@gmail.com.
*Note that Read for Fun has a separate application form to reflect the requirements of United for Literacy. Please ensure to download the correct application file!
Learner Registration will open soon!
Learner Registration
The form below is to be filled out by all learners interested in participating in tutoring sessions with one of our three programs. Please download this form, fill it out and submit to the Chair in charge of the program you or your child is applying to. All Chair contact information can be found on the “Contact Us” page. To learn more about our programs please visit our "About Us" page. Please find the link to the form below.