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Purpose of role:
To assist with the delivery of the Homework Club, ensuring children are supported in a positive, safe and happy environment for all. Key Responsibilities:
Supervise and be responsible for children attending the club.
Support children to organise and complete Homework tasks.
Ensuring the welfare, safety and enjoyment of children at all times.
Tidy and clean up during and at the end of lthe activity.
Accompany children from Borestone Primary School to the YT club.
Prepare and serve snacks.
Be positive, enthusiastic, encouraging and patient with children.
Keep all paperwork as required, i.e. registration of children, accident reports.
Keep confidential any information regarding children and their families.
Work in line with COPs policies i.e. Child Protection, Equal Opportunities and Health and
The main task is to teach/tutor a small group of adults whose first language is not English.
Volunteer Tutor training workshops take place regularly. A mentor will advise and support a new volunteer tutor.
Qualified or trainee teachers of any subject are welcome, ideal for someone with a TEFL certificate or degree who would like some teaching experience, but friendliness, patience & respect for other cultures are as important as qualifications.
Work with a specific person to enable him/her to achieve successful completion of a course. This may be ICT or a learner on the Literacies Project.
LEAD students have many barriers to overcome and a volunteer has a pivotal role in the learning support team.
This role includes teaching bilingual children and adults. If you can speak fluent Russian you can develop your own subject as long as it sounds interesting and engaging. If you are a native English speaker you can help our Russian speaking parents brush up on their English.
As part of the Library and Information service of Leisure and Culture Dundee, your role will be to work within an informal library environment to support customers to develop their basic I.T. skills. This role will have a focus on developing individuals skills to enable the customer to engage with Internet based welfare rights and employabililty systems. Main tasks include providing training to individuals covering a variety of basic I.T. skills such as sending emails and using search engines, helping customers to use databases and Internet based welfare rights and employability systems, and signposting customers to specialist agencies and services.
The role of the sewing classroom assistant will be to work with other volunteers and project staff to plan and deliver sewing lessons, tutor basic sewing skills such as working a sewing machine, following patterns, measuring and cutting fabric and hemming, provide support to individual learners in a classroom setting, set up and clear up sewing stations within the sewing class, maintain check in and out system for sewing tools and follow DIWC policy and procedures.
Edinburgh Napier University are looking for members of the public to act as, patients. A Simulated Patient is someone who has been carefully trained to act as a patient, and as such the students will practice non-invasive skills such as communication, moving and handling. This will increase their confidence and competence, and will help prepare them for clinical practice. We have many manikins and models, but there is no better way to prepare students than to let them practice their skills.
Deliver workshops for participants from varied backgrounds - must attend 3 weekend workshops to experience programme and train yourself. Facilitators attend a L1, L2 then a training weekend, then are expected to complete their "apprenticeship" of a minimum of 3 workshops delivered within one calendar year. Workshop facilitation involves, public speaking, explaining exercises, assisting with individual learning, helping to explain tasks, running & coming up with ideas for light and lively games.
Learning Support Volunteer
- Home-based volunteering, Suitable for groups, One-off volunteering, Board/trustee role
Lead Scotland volunteers support disabled people and carers to learn. Most learners receive 1-1 support to learn and develop all kinds of skills. Learners may want to brush up on their reading, writing and number skills e.g. learning how to write a shopping list or work on the household budget. Other learners may want to learn to use a computer e.g. to send emails, do online shopping or access Facebook.
We take a person-centred approach, which means we listen to what the learner wants to learn, and we can offer tailored learning packages to support them to achieve their goals. The learning can be formal or informal - learners can be supported to achieve a qualification or just simply learn skills to make a difference to everyday life.
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http://www.lead.org.uk/learner-of-the-year/
Makers’ Mentor following full training on the equipment will be in charge of helping the beginner makers. It will include operating a large scale Epson digital printer, vinyl cutter, OKI white toner printer, heat-press, laminator and optionally-a screen printing set for printing onto garments. In return the Makers’ Mentor will be allowed to use the equipment for personal use for free.