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Program Details

Baltimore City Program Details Year of Experience Corps project launch: 1998

Students served: 6,000

Grades/ages of students served: pre-K-5

Experience Corps participants: 271

Participant hours logged last school year: 168,000

Schools and Centers served:

Alexander Hamilton Elementary Middle School
Belmont Elementary School
Barclay Elementary Middle School
Brehms Lane Elementary School
City Springs Elementary Middle School
Commodore John Rodgers Elementary Middle School
East Baltimore Community School
Furley Elementary School
Gardenville Elementary School
Gwynns Falls Elementary School
Hampstead Hill Academy
Highlandtown Elementary Middle School 215
Highlandtown Elementary Middle School 237
Hilton Elementary School
Lakeland Elementary Middle School
Langston Hughes Elementary School
Liberty Elementary School
Lockerman-Bundy Elementary School
Margaret Brent Elementary Middle School
North Bend Elementary Middle School
William Paca Elementary School
William Pinderhughes Elementary Middle School
 

Partners and Funders

Community partners: Johns Hopkins University Center on Aging and Health, AARP Maryland, Baltimore City Commission on Aging and Retirement Education, Baltimore City Public School System

Funders: Abell Foundation, AmeriCorps, Baltimore City, Baltimore Community Foundation, Baltimore Women's Giving Circle, Betty & Dudley Digges Foundation, Abraham & Ruth Krieger Family Foundation, Maryland Governor's Office on Service and Volunteerism, Venable Foundation, Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
 

Community Involvement

Baltimore City Community Involvement Experience Corps members Ms. Alta Morris and Mr. Marvin Murphy from Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School #215 prepare to distribute Thanksgiving food baskets to needy neighborhood families.
 

AARP Experience Corps/AmeriCorps Classroom Literacy Tutor

Baltimore City AARP Experience Corps/AmeriCorps Classroom Literacy Tutor Position Description

Directly reports to: Team Leader and Volunteer Engagement Specialist

Service Position Summary: This member is a person recruited from the community who is embedded into a kindergarten through third grade classroom to develop children's literacy skills. The member collaborates with the classroom teaching staff to enhance daily literacy opportunities and conduct literacy assessments to ensure children are on track to read on grade level by the end of 3rd grade.

Essential Functions:
  • Provide intentional and meaningful literacy instruction during all parts of the day to improve the literacy skills of children in kindergarten through third grade,

  • Perform literacy assessments three times throughout the year during the specified benchmark windows

  • Conduct ongoing progress monitoring between benchmark windows to monitor children's growth

  • Use results of the assessment data to reflect on and inform classroom teacher and team leader of student's growth

  • Collaborate with the classroom teacher to facilitate small group literacy instruction

  • Enhance the classroom literacy environment

  • Participate in monthly school based in-service sessions coordinated by the Team Leader

  • Attend pre-service literacy and program training


    • Secondary Functions:
  • Attend site-sponsored activities to represent AARP EC (i.e. family night, book fairs, etc.)

  • Participate in site-sponsored trainings, meetings or other school-time activities

  • Participate in site-sponsored or EC programmatic events


    • Qualifications:
  • Strong interest in education, specifically helping children develop literacy skills

  • Dedication to community service

  • Speak, read, and write English fluently

  • Responsible, organized, flexible, motivated

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills

  • Ability to make a commitment to complete 10 months of service (August 2012 - June 30, 2013)

  • Must be at least 55-years-old

  • High school diploma or GED

  • U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident alien

  • Must submit to and successful pass a National Sex Offender Public Registry check, FBI, and state criminal background check


    • Requirements:
  • Complete a 30 hour pre-service training

  • Complete an application

  • Submit a bi-weekly timesheet to report service hours

  • Completes a minimum of 450 hours during the school year (see note below)


    • Service Environment:
    Ability to work in a typical preschool classroom setting with active young children.


    NOTE: Additional positions to serve 5 or 10 hours a week may also be available in multiple schools throughout Baltimore City.

    Reasonable accommodations provided upon request. This document is available in alternative formats. 2011-12

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    To Learn more about AmeriCorps:
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