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California Teaching Fellows Foundation

I worked here a few years back and I have to say that it was one of the best but not best experience. This was based on the school site I worked at and not the within the company. The school site I was assigned to wasn’t bad to work at. Some students were great to work while some students were hard to work with but it happens. The main problem was management aka the site lead and assistant site lead assigned at the time. Felt like there was no support in help when it came to a student who would be hard to work with. At one point I had a class of 20 students with 15 of them acting out which was hard to deal with as it was my first year. One thing that didn’t quite make sense to me was how the company allows 18 year olds and older to be put in charge of a classroom of 20 or more students without having some kind of training beforehand on classroom management and teaching training. You do teach the basics but going in with little to no experience with tutoring was very overwhelming. 
I feel that the company should offer hands in training before a candidate is handed off to their assigned school site. The company does offer different trainings aka Saturday academy’s where you attend a training once or twice a month every Saturday. This seems great but I was in a different department as an after school program so I wasn’t able to get any of the trainings that I would’ve wanted. Mainly for these “trainings” I would just sit in a boring presentation  that had nothing to do with after school program and teaching/tutoring. 
The pay does seem good as you think that you are getting paid more to be an after school program tutor. But after promising kids candies, pizza party or any food parties without the financial support of the program, you pretty much even up or get less pay because majority of your money comes from you as you want to motivate those students to do better by rewarding them. And you also have to think about not getting paid during vacation time which would be thanksgiving, winter, spring, and summer break. 
I do love the family work setting. Makes me feel like I had another family at work. I’ve made a couple of friends who I have kept in contact with. I love it how my site did do potlucks and celebrated a person’s birthday so those were a plus. 

I know that Teaching Fellows is different everywhere, but the location I worked at wasn’t that great. I would give it 2 stars, but working with the kids was amazing, and the experience taught me a lot. However, the staff was less than supportive. I worked as an after school tutor, but was basically an after school teacher. Everything needed to be organized and orderly, I had to have my lesson plans ready, and I needed to be on time to every transition. My cart needed to be clean, I needed to have all of my materials, and I needed to make sure to be on top of any/all behavior issues. Our site lead, who was supposed to help us with behavior issues, never resolved anything, and students would continue to be disrespectful to tutors and other students. So, it was left up to the tutors to do it alone. It got to a point where I couldn’t keep up with it all and I was getting talked to because I was falling short of an unrealistic expectation. The reality was I wasn’t yet a teacher, and the supervisors expected me to be. And when I fell short of perfection, I was reprimanded for it. There was aso a lack of understanding of differences in personality and ability. The supervisors claimed that they would help the tutors out, but they rarely did. There was a lack in team work among tutors as well. The other tutors singled me out and made me feel bad about myself. It felt like them against me. Overall, not a pleasant experience, and I would recommend if you choose to work for them, to look into how the foundation is operated in your area. Even further, I would research the way the schools operated and collaborated with Teaching Fellows.

This job really helps you learn how to connect with kids through their interests and hobbies. I work at the high school level and I tend to think its much easier than working with younger kids. You get to hang out with kids and do fun things with them. The staff I work with is great and supportive. Although not every school site is the same. Management can be slow and not respond  in a timely manner. As a tutor I only work 20 hours a week and wish it could be more but the pay is good. There really is not a lot of opportunities for advancement unless you stay for years. And as it's job for college students it's hard to stay with their given schedules. Some times adjustments are made for scheduling but not all the time. So if your a college student and only have morning class or only have afternoon class the schedule it good. Once month we do Saturday academy with a lot of workshops to learn new skills. But the longer you stay the more repetitive the workshops get. A lot of training it cratered to younger kids and not really high school kids so if you want to work with older kids you learn a lot on your own. Overall I stayed here for a couple of years while in college but now that I'm graduating and see no room for advancing, I don;t see myself staying for the long run.

I worked at Teaching Fellows for 3+ years in various after school programs
It's not a terrible job for a college student
Many of the people employed here have long term plans to pursue teaching, and this job gives great experience or references for that.
However, the company could be run a lot better. For promotions or moving up, favoritism is a huge problem. 
I had worked at school sites where people who kissed their managers you know what moved on up, while people who worked hard were not noticed at all. The kids themselves are amazing to work for, but it all depends on the school site you are working at. Management as far as Site Leads or Assistant Site Leads go can be good or really terrible. Also, some site liaisons are better to work for than others. Overall, if you are planning a career with teaching or love kids this is the job for you.
Just keep in mind that sucking up to management will earn you promotions and not your hard work. And parents can be a drag at times. Also depending on the school site you are placed at you may see no discipline for disruptive or bad kids.

On a typical day you deal with a bunch of kids helping them with a  variety of different tasks like homework (math,reading,spelling,writing)
We do outdoor activities where the kids play games and are engaged in physical activities.
We also deal with these kids attitudes which can include hitting us making rude/inappropriate comments about our physical appearance or other aspects of our personal self.
This is a job that you truly have to have a passion for otherwise both the kids and parents will eat you alive.
The positive aspects of this job is their trainings that they conduct are amazing, and if you pay attention and participate you will gain something from them.
I would only recommend this position if you have another job that pays well or if money is not important
If you are doing this for generating income then this is the wrong job regardless of passion.

Working with students to help them with their homework & provide a fun atmosphere was the best. Having good staff to work with was a plus.My supervisor also was a good person to go to & made herself available. The director however that represents that area is extremely negative, expects a lot from all of her staff & severely lacks empathy. She has severe favoritism within the schools she oversees. Those  that are within her good graces are untouchable & can do no wrong while others may ask for a day off for a medical reason & are given the hardest time about it. Those that are in admin positions under her are to do whatever asked , even if it means taking work home & without pay. There is a high turnover rate of employment here & it is because of her. I'm not sure why Teaching Fellows has not looked into this. If they truly cared about the status of this area they would investigate & remove her to a different position.

Working with kids and having the freedom to be creative, unique, and hands-on in your teaching style was the best part of the job.  Unfortunately, the site coordinators and site liaison for my site made the job unbearable.  Going to work was stressful, anxiety-inducing, and I often felt left out (so I focused entirely on my students and how I can best serve them, but was then written up for not being collaborative with my co-workers).  I had to leave the position due to unwavering hours that conflicted with courses required for me to graduate university on time, however the environment management created made me happy to leave.   

Returning to the site as a substitute teacher, the site coordinator has since been replaced by a much more competent, compassionate, respectful, and fair coordinator.  However, I still heard several complaints about administration higher up.

I had my own classroom with 25 students, every hour we get a new grade level to teach. I taught math skills. It was a teacher position but for fewer hours. Working this job showed me patience, people skills, from speaking with parents. Organization and accountability was key. My co-workers were amazing, great people, no problems in the work place. The rough part of the job was dealing with the more unruly kids, it was a challenging neighborhood so the children were more aggressive and disrespectful to authority. I enjoyed being able to help these children grow, watch them grow and being able to be someone they would come to in a time of need. Seeing how the children grew up (challenging neighborhood) made me want to be the one person that brought joy to what seemed like such a tough upbringing.

Depending if it's an odd or even schedule day; go to work office, see if I need to make copies of forms for teachers. Then head to classroom, arrange a tutorial. Students go up and write out questions they need help on in certain subject. I assist, supervise students to make sure students are asking questions to help assist student in need and grade students' binder. Make sure their binder are organized, if they have their cornell notes, and etc. My co-workers, coordinators, teachers,and students are welcoming and friendly. I learn something new everyday working in this warming environment. And I enjoy every minute of it, being able to make a differences in a child's life is very rewarding to me.

I enjoyed all my years of the ASP. It was more organized when the foundation first started which was when I also was hired on. After so many years in the program, it seemed like they were just hiring on people just because of the high demands for ASP tutors. In my opinion, more tutors meant more grants for the foundation. I somehow saw that they lost their purpose of why we were doing ASP. 

You were basically a teacher and it felt good when you made a difference in the children's lives. It's always hardest in the beginning of the school year. Settling the kids back to school mode and all. As well as, the end of the school year saying bye to the children that you have grown fond of as if sometimes they were your very own. It's not the easiest job out there but it's also not the hardest job. It's rewarding when the kids learn something new or you're doing a fun project with them.

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