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.
Text
Whenever
Based on any preferences you might have (gender, hobbies, etc), you'll be paired with a penpal from all over the world. You can text, ask questions, and get to know one another!
Video Call
(Optional for Pen Pal)
Get to know your penpal over video call if you'd like!
Global Perspectives
Being in ACE means you're always invited to our international discussion sessions where we talk about different lifestyles, global issues, and current events.
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:
If you are paired with a student from Japan or Taiwan, download the LINE app to communicate. Sid will send you their contact.
If you are paired with a student from France or India, download the Whatsapp app to communicate. Willis will send you their contact.
If you are paired with a student from China, download the WeChat app to communicate. Maxime will send you their contact. Students in China cannot access Google, Meta, Skype, or Zoom.