The need for workers in education goes beyond teachers and school staff, as the state currently needs 800 new tutors to work in schools and help students catch up.
Students are in need of assistance following two years of the pandemic. According to the Nation’s Report Card, two decades of growth for American students in math and reading has been wiped away.
Americorps tutoring programs Reading Corps and Math Corps are hiring right now in Minnesota to help return student learning levels to where they were before March 2020.
Chue Xiong is the senior manager of the program, and she says Hennepin and Ramsey Counties need 300 new tutors, and schools are already stretched thin.
“There’s so much need in the classrooms that sometimes there’s not enough school staff, or the classroom may not be able to get to all the needs of the students, so by partnering with our programs, our tutors are able to do that,” she said.
One benefit to seeing tutors is the ability to tailor learning specific to the student, which often can’t happen in crowded classrooms.
“One first grader may have a different need from another first grader. So that’s what we are able to do with our curriculum is really be able to tailor that support and tailor that resource and monitor that growth throughout the year,” Xiong said.
Giving one-on-one attention is something that Xiong says can really help a student get ahead or back on track.
“Their role is really to be able to provide additional one-on-one or really small group focused attention to those student’s needs,” Xiong said.
Positions for tutoring are part-time and paid. The deadline to apply is coming up on October 5th. You can go to join.readingandmath.org to find out more.
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