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READING FOR PEACE
Purpose:
Give personal attention to small groups of children, using children’s literature to increase awareness of nonviolent options for solving conflict.
Activities:
- Read books with elementary age school children, discussing the characters and stories
- You would be one of 6 to 8 volunteers who volunteer weekly for this program
- You would read to only 3 or 4 children at a time, in approx. 30 minute segments
- Time commitment: approximately 3 hours, once per week
- Program takes place on Thursday afternoons, from approximately Noon to 3pm
- If you cannot commit to helping every week, you can commit to the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month, or the 2nd & 4th, etc, or any other configuration
- Other ways to assist with this program: research books to add to our program
- On occasion, we have a need
for bilingual readers who can read to children in Spanish. Please
let us know if you are able to help
with this.
Qualifications:
This volunteer must have an interest in working with elementary age children and be willing to become familiar with basic conflict and anger management concepts and TCC’s children’s library resources. They must have good organizational skills, patience and be very dependable.
Training:
Special training session for Reading for Peace volunteers as well as two two-hour conflict and anger management workshops.
Time Frame:
Thursdays, noon to 3 p.m.
Site:
The Conflict Center and metro-area schools
Supervision:
Vickie Samland, TCC Staff, Reading for Peace Coordinator
Benefits:
- Have fun working with children in the school setting
- Gain familiarity with high quality children’s literature
- Meet other Reading for Peace volunteers
- Opportunities for personal growth and professional contacts
- Challenging use of your talents and creativity
- Learn inquiry method
- Apply nonviolent conflict and anger management skills
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