Volunteer Feedback

Everyone wants to know about the positive effect your volunteer contribution has on student success! Back at headquarters, we love to receive your stories and photos about your volunteer experiences.

Our continued funding from sponsors depends on volunteers taking the time to complete a survey based on your observations working with your assigned students.

Thank you in advance for completing the survey(s) that apply to you!

Jan-May 2012 Assistive Technology Volunteer Survey

Jan-May 2012 Faculty of Education Assistive Technology Training and Volunteer Survey

Jan-May 2012 High School Volunteer Tutors and Mentors Survey

Jan-May 2012 OCDSB Math Tutor Survey

Here are just a few stories from our volunteers:

“I love volunteering as a piano teacher with Heart of the City Piano because it’s a great way to be involved in my local community. It’s so rewarding to see the students improve over the year, and to see how proud they are of their accomplishments!”

- Shaun Turney, Volunteer Piano Teacher

“I volunteer in the Kindergarten class at Elgin Street Public School. To me, 4 and 5 year old children are the real people of the world, so honest, trusting , so worldly in a simple way, so clearly individual, and so caring of each other. ... It is a wonderful privilege to be with them.”

- Art Ferri, Classroom Support Volunteer

“When I first started tutoring, I was working with a young lady in grade 4. We worked on the JUMP fractions unit from October until February, and by the end of that time her self-confidence had improved considerably along with her ability to handle fractions and all of the skills that entails. I would see her in the hall at her school after that and ask how things were going. Towards the end of that year I asked if she was doing fractions yet in class. She told me that they had just finished that unit and that one day her teacher had posed a fraction problem that was so hard that even the smartest boy in the class could not figure out the answer. And then with the biggest smile you can imagine she told me that she was able to figure it out and show the smartest boy how to solve the problem. That smile will probably keep me volunteering in the program for another ten years or so!”

- Clyde Goodlet, Volunteer Math Tutor

“Early learning is about living and growing in the world of the children, it is a commitment to success of the future generation. Taking children through the journey of learning is like sowing a seed of flower that get dispersed far and wide.
So far I have volunteered in grade four math class, provided early reader support in a grade two class, and presently I am in kindergarten class with Ms. Way. In this class my support is dynamic; it is as needed. I read with some children who appear to have short attention span. My support has provided them with ability to follow through, at least with a considerable degree of attention during one to one reading time.
I have also had the opportunity to work with a new student in the class. We worked on reading, naming and identifying weather and days on the calendar. My support provides one to one interaction and help to complete activities needed to catch up with others in the class.
It is a wonderful experience volunteering in Ms. Way’s class; she is a teacher by example. Her classroom is characterized by high moral values; every moment with her is a teachable moment.”

- Hassana Bakare Classroom Support Volunteer