Suggested Workshop Topics

Some of the questions/topics we seek to cover in each conference:

  1. What is mentoring, tutoring and how do these combine as school-to-work concepts?
  2. What are our students and volunteers telling us? - "What does it take to make a difference?"
  3. What do leaders tell us. "What does it take to succeed?"
  4. What are communities doing to build more and better tutor/mentor programs?
  5. Who are some of the groups doing the best work that might be copied?
Topics that the T/MC would like to include in each conference:
  • Discussions of mentoring and tutoring concepts
  • Recruitment Training/volunteer support
  • Training your volunteer (tutor or mentor) and keeping them longer
  • Tutoring strategies, focused on reading, math, science
  • Building relationships with volunteers and/or students
  • Volunteer or student recognition
  • Learning/experience-building activities
  • Curriculum Scholarship programs
  • College and Career readiness activities for mentors and students
  • Use of portfolios
  • Education to Career Activities
  • How teachers can get involved in after-school programs
  • Working with middle school students
  • Evaluation Strategies
  • Use of technology
  • Fund raising/marketing
  • Grant writing
  • Promotional tools for selling mentoring in schools or corporations
  • How to deal w/problem/behavior children
  • Techniques on working with students w/ low self-esteem
  • The Parent-mentor relationship
  • Involving Parents and teachers
  • Volunteer screening (intake, interviews, orientations, etc
  • How to start a program
  • Students as volunteers/leaders
  • Partnership with schools
  • Newsletter/communications
  • Partnering with public officials
  • Partnering with business
  • Motivating students to learn
  • Communication with children and youth
  • Converting volunteers into leaders
  • How tutor/mentor programs/volunteers can help improve academic achievement
  • Building volunteer and community boards
  • On-line mentoring and tutoring
  • Building a website on a shoestring budget
  • For-profit mindset in a non-profit world
  • Safe tutor/mentor screening
  • Use of electronic portfolios in tutoring and academic mentoring
Please use this form to submit a proposal for a workshop. If you would like to be part of a panel, or if you can facilitate a panel disussion and group brainstorming session, please contact us.