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Intergenerational Tutoring: Older Adults Supporting Children’s Academic Needs via Video Conferencing
COVID-19 resulted in societal disruptions across the lifespan. School (K-12) closures were among the most challenging impacts of the virus, leaving many parents with the burden of schooling their children at home. Another major impact of the virus was the social isolation and loneliness felt by many...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8682732/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.3407 |
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author | Hoffman, Jessica Miller, Edward Burr, Jeffrey Mutchler, Jan Hermelbracht, James Volpe, Robert Codding, Robin Briesch, Amy |
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description | COVID-19 resulted in societal disruptions across the lifespan. School (K-12) closures were among the most challenging impacts of the virus, leaving many parents with the burden of schooling their children at home. Another major impact of the virus was the social isolation and loneliness felt by many retired, older adults, who were sheltering at home. The disruptions of COVID-19 led our inter-professional team to develop the Intergenerational Tutoring program. Intergenerational Tutoring addresses a service delivery gap in schools because tutors expand schools' capacity to implement evidence-based instruction with students in need of individual support. At the same time, research shows that meaningful volunteering supports the well-being of older adults across physical, psychosocial and cognitive dimensions of health. The aim of the Intergenerational Tutoring program is to pair older adults with kindergarten children in high needs schools to implement early literacy interventions remotely via Zoom. Our poster will describe the Intergenerational Tutoring program including tutor training and tutoring implementation. We will summarize the initial findings from our pilot study conducted in spring and summer 2021 with tutors and children. Data will include (1) themes from tutor interviews regarding the personal meaningfulness of the program and the program’s associated benefits and challenges; (2) implementation fidelity data; (3) impact of tutoring on children’s early literacy skills; and (4) parent feedback. We will summarize lessons learned and next steps for the program. |
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spelling | pubmed-86827322021-12-20 Intergenerational Tutoring: Older Adults Supporting Children’s Academic Needs via Video Conferencing Hoffman, Jessica Miller, Edward Burr, Jeffrey Mutchler, Jan Hermelbracht, James Volpe, Robert Codding, Robin Briesch, Amy Innov Aging Abstracts COVID-19 resulted in societal disruptions across the lifespan. School (K-12) closures were among the most challenging impacts of the virus, leaving many parents with the burden of schooling their children at home. Another major impact of the virus was the social isolation and loneliness felt by many retired, older adults, who were sheltering at home. The disruptions of COVID-19 led our inter-professional team to develop the Intergenerational Tutoring program. Intergenerational Tutoring addresses a service delivery gap in schools because tutors expand schools' capacity to implement evidence-based instruction with students in need of individual support. At the same time, research shows that meaningful volunteering supports the well-being of older adults across physical, psychosocial and cognitive dimensions of health. The aim of the Intergenerational Tutoring program is to pair older adults with kindergarten children in high needs schools to implement early literacy interventions remotely via Zoom. Our poster will describe the Intergenerational Tutoring program including tutor training and tutoring implementation. We will summarize the initial findings from our pilot study conducted in spring and summer 2021 with tutors and children. Data will include (1) themes from tutor interviews regarding the personal meaningfulness of the program and the program’s associated benefits and challenges; (2) implementation fidelity data; (3) impact of tutoring on children’s early literacy skills; and (4) parent feedback. We will summarize lessons learned and next steps for the program. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8682732/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.3407 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Hoffman, Jessica Miller, Edward Burr, Jeffrey Mutchler, Jan Hermelbracht, James Volpe, Robert Codding, Robin Briesch, Amy Intergenerational Tutoring: Older Adults Supporting Children’s Academic Needs via Video Conferencing |
title | Intergenerational Tutoring: Older Adults Supporting Children’s Academic Needs via Video Conferencing |
title_full | Intergenerational Tutoring: Older Adults Supporting Children’s Academic Needs via Video Conferencing |
title_fullStr | Intergenerational Tutoring: Older Adults Supporting Children’s Academic Needs via Video Conferencing |
title_full_unstemmed | Intergenerational Tutoring: Older Adults Supporting Children’s Academic Needs via Video Conferencing |
title_short | Intergenerational Tutoring: Older Adults Supporting Children’s Academic Needs via Video Conferencing |
title_sort | intergenerational tutoring: older adults supporting children’s academic needs via video conferencing |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8682732/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.3407 |
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