What will YOU teach?

DESCRIPTION

Apprenticeships at Citizen Schools give adults the opportunity to take what they do best in their professional careers or personal pursuits and use it to help middle-school students move to a long-term trajectory of success.

Volunteer Citizen Teachers enable young people to learn real-world skills by creating real-world projects. Lawyers turn their apprentices into prosecutors, artists cultivate young muralists, gardeners lead a team of twelve-year-old green thumbs.

"WOW!" is what people usually say when they encounter the results of the apprentices' work. So that is what we call the final product, presentation or performance at the end of each apprenticeship. Every WOW! showcases the students' learning for a public audience of family, school staff, and community leaders. Past WOW!s include a video on lead contamination, a prize-winning solar car, an arts festival, a naval warship design, a CD of local music, even a financial plan for a new business--all created by young people themselves.

The Citizen Teacher experience is richly rewarding--and hassle-free. The whole experience spans 13 weeks and between 30 and 40 hours.

Here is what it includes:

-Extensive training with Citizen Schools staff
-An on-site orientation and Apprenticeship Fair in the first week
-10 afternoons of instruction with apprentices culminating in a WOW!
-A final session for apprentices and Citizen Teachers to reflect on their journey

For more information visit http://www.citizenschools.org or http://ctnation.citizenschools.net

SKILLS

If you love something, or know something, then you have what we are looking for, and what our youth desperately need.

Volunteering with Citizen Schools doesn't require any teaching experience as only a handful of our Citizen Teachers come to us with it. Dedication and enthusiasm are the most important qualities in a successful Citizen Teacher.

All Citizen Schools volunteers receive intensive training and are supported by a full-time, professional campus Team Leader who assists in apprenticeship development and classroom behavior management, and provides coaching throughout the apprenticeship.

DETAILS

WHO: Any individual or group with skills to share with young people aged 11-14!

WHAT: Teach your profession or hobby in after-school apprenticeships. No teaching experience is necessary! All Citizen Schools volunteers receive intensive training and are supported by a full-time, professional educator every step of the way. Lawyers turn their apprentices into prosecutors; artists cultivate young muralists; gardeners lead a team of twelve-year-old green thumbs; financial analysts teach young investors the time value of money.

WHEN: Volunteers teach weekly 90-minute learning projects (from 4:15 to 5:45) for 11 afternoons. Our Fall semester starts in mid- August and ends in mid-December.

WHERE: Citizen Schools operates its program at Henderson Middle School.

HOW: VISIT http://www.citizenschools.org/volunteer or contact Cassie McIntyre, by phone at 704.332.3645 or by email at [email protected]