• Individuals who have an interest in helping other adults reach educational goals and who are willing to participate in on-going training.
• High School graduates who are 18 years of age or older

What Training time is required?

• Approximately 15 hours of initial training
• Initial training workshops are scheduled over a two month period.
• Additional periodic training workshops each year.

Where do tutors meet with students?

At our office at 124 West Buffalo Street
Places convenient for our students, such as:

• Cornell Campus
• Groton Public Library
• Ithaca College Campus
• Ithaca Wegman's
• Tompkins County Public Library
• Ulysses Philomathic Library in Trumansburg
• West Village

Tutor Job Description

• Be available for tutoring for at least one year.
• Work with a student to establish, meet, and revise specific short-term and long-term goals.
• Meet with a small group or with individual students a minimum of 2 hours per week.
• Attend on-going training while matched with students or a group.
• Report cancellation of meeting to student and TLP office.
• For each meeting, sign in and out (and remind students to do the same) in the sign-in book at the TLP office.
• Keep TLP informed of progress by submitting monthly report forms by the 5th of the next month.
• Each month, sign up on a room assignment sheet.

" I am happy I met my tutor. When I came to Ithaca, I could speak in short sentences. Now I speak in longer sentences. I learned new vocabulary and all about American culture."

Kyungjin, ESL Student