Tutoring
Coordinators
- Mathematics Teacher, HS
Introduction
Hayfield Tutoring is a program initiated by a few of our faculty and staff members here at Hayfield Secondary School that saw a need to help supplement and support the learning process of our Hayfield Students. Our website acts a “one-stop-shop” for resources for tutoring here at Hayfield and in our community. We also wanted a program that would coordinate, collaborate, facilitate, and expedite the process of connecting our students with a tutor to help them progress toward their academic success. Hopefully, as the program grows, we’ll see more qualified volunteers from our school and community participation with the result that we’ll see a school wide improvement in ALL our students academically. No program is a cure all for academic success, and this program in no way is substitutes for the role of the individual teachers, counselors, and honor societies in helping and guiding our students. It is supplemental and voluntary, but hopefully a great support program for our school.
Tutor Request Procedure
- Students/Parents
- First, contact your teacher for tutoring availability after school or during the day.
- Review the page below under “Tutoring Resources” and contact those individuals or organizations directly.
- Group Tutoring: Teacher/Counselors can contact the coordinators directly.
- Coordinator will contact tutors and provide the names for teachers to contact directly
- Teachers will inform the Coordinators of the progress.
- Parents: For in school tutoring please see “In School (free)” links below for in school resources and contact those resources directly. For Fee /non-fee based Tutoring resources outside the school check the below “Out of School (Fairfax County) links below for tutoring resources and contact the tutors directly.
- NOTE: For teachers- If you want to tutor please see the following website (https://www.fcps.edu/resources/family-engagement/tutors-and-tutoring) and read the following FCPS Regulations about FCPS Employees Tutoring.
Varsity Tutors (Online Tutoring Service Provided by FCPS)
Fairfax County Public Schools is partnering with Varsity Tutors to provide students and families with extra resources for learning. Every student can take advantage of Varsity Tutors' services, at no cost, including weekly live online classes, on demand 24/7 chat tutoring, essay editing, study resources such as recorded content, practice problems, and diagnostic tests.
Tutoring Resources
In School (Free)
Honor Societies (Honor Societies have students who tutor for community hours)
- National Honor Society - Sharon Paul / Corey Gilmore / Howard Paul
- English Honor Society – Brian Hannon
- French Honor Society – Laurie Donovan
- Humanities Honor Society – Sagal Ahmed / Jaime Austin / Tim Busch / Austin Gogal / Sheridan Lusk / Liam Mullen / Myles Peckham / Molly Steadman / Doug Zywiol
- Japanese Honor Societies – Kyoko Vaughan
- Math Honor Society – Jack Mika
- Science Honor Society – Patricia Allison
- Spanish Honor Society – Jennifer Mathews / Elizabeth Busch
- Latin Honor Society – Nadia Ghosheh
Faculty Tutoring Programs (A few of our faculty have created Programs to assist our students in a variety of subject areas)
- AVID Club - High School AVID students will be working with students during Hawks Stay After on study skills, organizational skills and tutoring them in their academic subject areas. Students will have an opportunity to learn AVID strategies they can apply every day in their classes.
- Hawk Writing Center – Stephanie Jesu (The Hawk Writing Center was created in the fall of 2013 and is a great resource where Hayfield students can receive feedback and/or help with their writing throughout the entire writing process, from brainstorming to revising to editing. The HWC aims to provide a friendly environment where students can come to share their work with an attentive peer tutor. This collaboration will help them to become confident writers who are more informed of how to express and structure their ideas on paper. The writing center welcomes students with personal, creative, and academic writing in any stage of their process and is looking forward to helping them.
Volunteers (Coordinators maintain a database of all Tutoring Volunteers both faculty and badged volunteers). They consist of:
- Faculty (All teachers are usually available to tutor their students after school)
- Individual Faculty members that volunteer to tutor other students after hours in certain subject areas.
- Partnerships
- Coast Guard (Volunteers come to the classroom, during SOAR time, sometimes after school to tutor)
- Community Organizations (TBA)
- Parents/Community Individuals (TBA)
Outside of School (Fairfax County)
Free Tutoring
- GIVE (7-8th Grade)
- Military.Tutor.com Free Tutoring for Military Families
- Girls Who Math
- Study Buddy Program (Contact your school counselor to reach out to the Study Buddy contact together.)
Fee Based