Do you want to make a difference in a student’s life?
Join us as a Diamondbacks Tutor and enrich your life while sharing your time and skill with a young person who is at a critical stage of development.
As a tutor, you meet with a High Desert Middle School student in person or online once a week for 30 minutes to help them develop and practice language skills. Some tutors also help with math.
As a Diamondbacks Tutor, you can:
- Forge a personal friendship with your student and offer emotional support and a sense of stability.
- Read with your student using different teaching tools to improve their level of fluency and to foster a love of reading. Math support is offered with the guidance of the school’s math faculty.
- Help your student with homework if appropriate and needed.
How to sign up:
- Contact Alan Hilles (see info below) and he’ll help you.
- Become a High Desert Middle School volunteer by filling out
their form and completing a background check.
Contact Alan Hilles to learn more
diamondbackstutoring@gmail.com • (971) 717-6570
Other things you should know:
- It is not necessary to have a teaching credential, but it is critical to love children. Many students speak Spanish. No Spanish proficiency is needed to tutor (although appreciated!)
- If you tutor in person, you must be able to go to the school. If you tutor online, students will connect with you during the school day through a computer program called WebEx (like Zoom). A teacher at the school will supervise and assist you.
- You are invited to attend two online educational meetings with other tutors in the program on enrichment topics, continuing education, and a chance to share learning with each other.