Becoming A Project Excel Tutor

Tutoring is a vital component for the success of Project Excel Students. We only ask that tutors be skilled in the subject matter they wish to tutor in and also that they devote at least one hour every week for an entire semester or school year. If you think you would like to tutor one or more of our students, then complete the Tutor application and submit it to Project Excel. We will contact you as soon as we can to get you started.

For an Application or a Timesheets go to "Timesheets and Forms" page.

The role of a Project Excel Tutor is to develop and provide a positive, supportive, and encouraging academic relationship with student scholar(s) in grades 5-12 in a subject(s) that the tutor is skilled in. Specifically, the tutor is to facilitate the student's understanding and achievement in the particular subject by providing homework/exams assistance, test preparation, supplemental instruction to facilitate the tutee's understanding and completion of the assigned homework/preparation for tests or exams, and encourage achievement of academic course and higher education goals through focus on requested and core subjects, as well as UC and CSU A-G Requirements when grade appropriate. The time commitment for tutors is 1 hour per week, plus attendance at the Project Excel monthly general meeting (1.5-2 hours) for a total of approximately 5.5-7.5 hours per month.

Project Excel Tutor Expectations:

1. Weekly minimum of 1 hour tutoring sessions, held at local college/university or public library
2. Weekly contact with tutee via phone or email to monitor progress and follow-up.
3. Submit biweekly contact logs to Project Excel Program Director at Franklin Center or Faculty Project Coordinator on UCSB campus as indicated.
4. Encourage tutee attendance at, Project Excel monthly general meeting.
5. Encourage tutee participation in Project Excel, community events/activities, and/or university/college-related activities targeting the tutee's specific age/grade group and academic goals.

What our tutors have to say:

 Maggie (tutoring Leo) ..he and I are reading Madeleine L’Engle’s "A Wrinkle in Time" together and he is loving the book, which is a challenging reading level for him, and really improving at reading out loud—he’s so much more confident and fluent than he used to be, and is starting to choose to read more to me than me to him...

Myriam (tutoring Eli) ..it has been a pleasure to work with him and his family these past months. Since I'll be leaving the area this summer, I hope that you will be able to find another writing mentor (tutor) for Eli in the Fall; he shows much promise. ..In any case, my mentoring (tutoring) relationship with Eli was definitely the highlight of my brief tenure in the area...