become a tutor or pen pal

If you are interested in becoming a tutor or a pen pal, fill out this Google Form to express your interest. Tutors and pen pals are a reflection of this organization, so please make sure you dedicate sufficient time and energy to your student.  

Tutors do hold video calls with their students, while pen pals do not. Pen pals just send messages. There’s more time and energy needed to be a tutor, but it’s very rewarding.

Around mid-September, tutors and pen pals will be matched with a student or put on the waiting list for a student. You will organize times to meet with your student for about 30 minutes up to as long as you two want. 

Don't forget to give your student a friendly hello! We strongly recommend doing so within the first two weeks of being paired up. However, you may start tutoring whenever you and your student are available. 

The ACE outreach officers, Maxime, will check in with you to make sure student-tutor meetings are going smoothly. 

If you do not respond to your student or an outreach officer within two weeks, you risk having your student assigned to someone else.

When paired with a student, you will message your student using Whatsapp, WeChat, LINE, Messenger, Gmail, or some other preferred method of communication: