Learning support programs help students from migrant and refugee backgrounds to thrive.
Learning Beyond the Bell
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Across Victoria, Learning Beyond the Bell (LBB) supports over 365 out-of-school-hours learning support programs (OSHLSP). These programs provide high quality tuition and learning support to children and young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds, and their families. They also assist families to better support their children’s learning at home.
Often called Homework Clubs, they are actually much broader in their range of activities and methods of support than that term implies. Programs cover a range of models including Homework Clubs, Family Learning Clubs and peer-to-peer learning approaches. The clubs are focused on both learning and wellbeing outcomes. Find a club near you.
What can CMY provide?
Consultation and advice on:
- Designing and starting an OSHLSP
- Program management and delivery
- Policies and procedures
- Monitoring and evaluation plans
- Sustainability strategies
- Funding opportunities and grant applications
- Program partnership opportunities
- Volunteer recruitment and management
- Working with refugee and migrant students and their families
Networking and information sharing
- Regular e-newsletters and OSHLSP sector updates
- Networking and collegial support for coordinators
- Referral to other learning support or youth services
- Sector specific resources and publications
- Online map of OSHLSP across Victoria
- Tip sheets, templates and resources
Training and professional development
- Free training for OSHLSP run by community, school or religious organisations
- Targeted modules designed specifically for OSHLSP coordinators and volunteers
- Sessions available online and face-to-face
- Book a tailored session, or sign up to scheduled training
- Self-paced, e-learning modules available at any time
Resources for learning support programs
Our Learning Beyond the Bell team publishes a wide range of tip sheets, samples and templates for both Coordinators and Volunteers. Contact us if you can’t find what you’re looking for, and we’ll be happy to help.
COVID-19 Online Learning Resources
- Child Safety Tips for Online OSHLSPs
- MY Education Supporting Families
- MY Education Online Learning Platforms
- MY Education Online Resources
- Online Learning Consent Form
- Online Learning Tutor Conduct Form
- Online Learning Student Conduct Form
- OSHLSPs Operating during COVID-19
- Fun Activities and Games for Online OSHLSPs
- Returning to Face-to-Face Learning
- Transition Checklist
Refugee Journeys into Victorian Schools
This e-learning module explores the settlement and education experiences of students from a refugee background. It will identify some of the challenges that arise while settling in Australia and engaging in education. It is a resource for people supporting the education of students from a refugee background.
e-Learning Resource: Refugee Journeys into Victorian Schools
Tips for Tutors Video Series
A five-part video series of tips and strategies for volunteer tutors.
Program Coordination
- e-Learning Resource: Navigating the Victorian Education System: A guide for newly arrived young people and their families
- A Coordinator’s Guide to Out-of-School-Hours Learning Support Programs
- Working with parents and carers
- Working With Children Checks, Police Checks and Volunteers
- Why evaluate your OSHLSP
- What to do with your evaluation
- Volunteer Screening Guidelines
- Volunteer Retention
- Volunteer Recruitment Tipsheet
- Tips for promoting your homework club
- The benefits of Community Partnerships
- Retaining your volunteers in the first few weeks
- Recognising and thanking volunteers
- OSHLSP Grant Opportunities
- OSHLSP Coordinator PD Template
- Obtaining informed consent
- Local area networks
- Involving students in identifying needs
- Engaging Families
- Cyber safety Fact Sheet
- Communicating with Schools about Homework Club Students
- Map of the Victorian Education System – Information Sheet for Young People
Tutor Training
- Approaches to supporting students
- Ideas for Homework Club Activities
- Informal Language Needs Assessment
- Literacy Resource Checklist and Activities
- Maths Resource Checklist and Activities
- Peer Tutor Tip Sheet
- Planning effective tutoring sessions
- Providing a safe and supportive learning environment in homework clubs
- Responding to children with a disability in homework clubs
- Supporting EAL students in Maths
- Supporting learning across the curriculum
- Supporting students’ reading skills
- Supporting students’ speaking and listening skills
- Supporting students’ writing skills
- Tutor Rights and Responsibilities
- Using Text Types to support students in homework clubs
Samples and Templates
Research and Case Studies
Volunteer with a learning support program
Volunteers play an important role in Out-of-School-Hours Learning Support Programs. They tutor students in literacy, numeracy and study skills, and help to build confidence, self-esteem and feelings of connection to their school and wider community.
If you are interested in volunteering in a learning support program, please contact the club directly. Find a club near you.