STARS (Speakers, Tutors, Achievement, Retention, and Success) is an initiative launched by the National Director of Job Corps to increase student retention, improve student achievement, and support students’ completion of the Job Corps program. STARS advances the National Director’s 21st century goals for Job Corps by providing enhanced on-center services and community support for students.
The three primary components of STARS are Speakers, Tutors, and Mentors.
The goal of the Tutors component is to provide students with volunteer tutors who can assist them with academics, career technical training, and attainment of the Career Success Standards. Tutoring assistance is based on the individual needs of students.
Tutor Qualifications
To be eligible to volunteer as a STARS Tutor, individuals must possess the following qualifications:
- Able to provide academic and career technical assistance to youth ages
16-24
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Familiar with issues that may impact learning for students with educational, workplace and personal challenges
- Comfortable as role models
- Committed and flexible
- Committed to a minimum of one and a half (1.5) hours twice each month
- Able to use several teaching methodologies to work with the student
- Open to working with youth of all cultures, races, ethnicities
- Able adapt to each student’s individual needs
- Good listener and patient
- Believes sincerely that all Job Corps students are capable of academic excellence
In addition, all STARS volunteers will undergo phone and in-person interviews, background checks, and reference checks.
