Overview

The Project H.O.P.E tutoring program is based on the Partners for Success program model. Tutors spend two hours a week at local community centers helping with homework. Tutors fill-out reflection logs each time they tutor describing what strategies used and how they will plan for the future. Service Learning Assistants respond to the reflection logs providing tutors with consistent feedback and direction.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I do if my tutee is absent?
If your tutee is absent, we ask you to please be flexible and work with another student at the center. Your site coordinator will assign you to someone else for that day and you will receive credit for your tutoring session.

What do I do if I need to miss a tutoring session?
You will need to notify both your site (contact information is in your Tutoring Manual), your Service Learning Assistant and the tutoring coordinator, Liz Henderson, lhender@duke.edu.

How to I keep my tutee focused and on task? It's difficult to find a space with no interruptions or distractions.
You could ask your site coordinator if you can move to a quieter space - a separate classroom, a corner of the same room, in the hall, etc. You can also ask your tutee where he/she can concentrate the best and set expectations around what concentrating looks and sounds like. Also, make a list of objectives and check them off , take brief breaks, allow your tutee to hold a "fidget" object or get up and down every so often to release physical energy, and provide positive praise and incentives for appropriate behavior.

How do I know if my tutee has homework? Sometimes he/she doesn't bring any books and says that they did their homework at school.
You can help reinforce your site's expectation that during your tutoring session your tutee will be doing academic work. . Many times when you present your own lesson , your tutee "discovers" where his/her homework had been hiding.

How do I know what to work on with my tutee? I would like to have information about strengths and weaknesses and progress.
Your first step is to review your tutee's H.O.P.E folder, which contains old and recent report cards, past tutor letters, your tutee's Individual Student Plan with teacher-specified goals. Your second step is to review your Tutoring Manual pages and find lessons based on some of the suggestions in your tutee's H.O.P.E folder.

Where can I find extra resources to supplement my tutoring session?
In addition to the on-site materials -manipulatives, games and books - you can ask your site coordinator, SLA, Liz or professor for ideas and suggestions for activities to do with your tutee. You can also refer to the Useful Links page .

How do I continue tutoring my tutee after the semester has ended?
In the beginning of the following semester, Liz will email you inquiring if your schedule permits you to tutor in our afterschool sites.

How can I further continue and expand upon my take my service-learning and tutoring experiences?
You can continue on the Research Service Learning Pathway. The Education course in which you are enrolled is a Stage 1: Gateway Course. At the end of this course, you have to write a research proposal. This proposal can be the starting point for a project on which you can follow through. Using this proposal or another that you develop, you can take a Stage 2: Community-Based Research course. In this course, you will collaborate with a community partner to develop a project that helps to serve a need that your community partner has identified. In the last course, Stage 3: Capstone Project, you will continue your work from the Stage 2 course in an Independent Study or Capstone course. You will then present your final product publicly and share it with your community partner.
You can also apply for the Duke-Durham Scholars internship. It is an eight-week summer internship in which you work with Project H.O.P.E. summer programs in the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership. For more information on this internship, please visit the following site: http://www.duke.edu/web/education/scholarships/ddschol.html.