Reading Coach
Description
You will develop the literacy skills of an adult who wants to improve their reading, with empathy and non-judgemental support. You and your Reader will meet for half an hour, twice a week, to work through the Turning Pages phonics-based reading programme. No prior experience of teaching is needed, as you will be trained and guidance is provided throughout the programme. At first, sessions will take place face-to-face in an approved venue in Waltham Forest that is convenient for you and your reader (although remote coaching may be possible later on). Please note that we only operate in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
The impact you'll have
Providing an adult with the support they need to learn to read, and in turn opening doors for them to all sorts of new opportunities in life.
The skills you'll need
You will need to have the following skills in order to participate:
Confident reading skills; ability to demonstrate empathy and understanding whilst maintaining boundaries; ability to talk and listen in a patient, positive, encouraging and purposeful way; a non-judgemental attitude; reliability and consistency.
When
Commitment
Ongoing
Available Slots
1
You will need
Criminal record check required
Minimum age: 18
Getting here
E17 5AL
READ EASY WALTHAM FOREST
Education, employment and training
Read Easy Waltham Forest is a charity that works within Waltham Forest with adults who struggle to read. There are as many as 16,000 people in Waltham Forest who struggle to read or cannot read at all. This makes all aspects of their work and family life more challenging. Learning to read can be transformational.
Read Easy Waltham Forest recruit and train Reading Coaches who then work one to one with individuals, using a proven programme, until they can read. All reading coaching is free. The Reading Coaches have a team of volunteers behind them to support them in their roles by providing literacy support, promoting the service, finding appropriate public venues for coaching, raising funds and providing financial and administrative back up.
All our team are volunteers. We work as a supportive and friendly team, helping each other in our volunteering roles, and the results are very inspiring. To hear that a parent can read to their child for the first time, that someone can read the aisle names in supermarkets or that someone has been able to fill in a form by themselves for the first time in their life means that we know that we are making a positive change. One of our Coaches said that being a Reading Coach is the most rewarding thing they had ever done! One of our management team said that they thought they were just volunteering but now realise that they were also making new friends! Our aim as a group is to continue to expand the number of Readers we can help and to do that, we need to expand our team.
Do you have some time each week you could use to help someone learn to read? We have various roles on the Team where you could use your enthusiasm and skills to help. Would you like to be part of a wonderful team quietly making a big difference?