Combined Literacy Tutor Training Workshops

  Our tutor-training program is a comprehensive 18-hour course designed to prepare volunteers to teach essential language skills to adults. We teach volunteers how to assess the life and literacy skills that adult students already have, how to determine which ones they want and need to acquire in order to overcome the obstacles they face, and how to design a plan of study that will help them achieve their goals. Along the way trainees discover how basic language is acquired, how adults learn effectively, and which techniques are most useful in developing listening, speaking, reading and writing skills for students of Basic Literacy and English for Speakers of Other Languages. Our training stresses working with multiple students in small groups in a patient, non-threatening environment in which tutor and student are equals.

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Tutor Support Workshops

   Our tutors complete 18 hours of instruction in a training program considered rigorous and comprehensive. But, for those who feel they could use a little extra help along the way, our education program never really ends. Each month we offer a different professional development seminar, called Tutor Support Workshops, where adult education experts and skilled tutors walk our volunteers through new techniques that have proven successful in the adult classroom. The themes of the workshop vary: they run from teaching basic grammar, to pronunciation and accent reduction, to use of the graphic novel (similar to comics), to utilizing the lyrics of popular folk songs to teach vocabulary and comprehension, and everything in between. Statistically, the Tutor Support Workshops have helped improve our retention of tutors.

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Summer & Fall 2022

Online Training, by Barbara Hathaway
Platform: Zoom
Tuesdays, 6 - 8:15 pm
November 1, 8, 15, 29, & December 6 , 2022

​Online Training, by Barbara Hathaway
Platform: Zoom
Tuesdays, 6 - 8:15 pm
September 13, 20, 27, October 6 & 11, 2022

"Using Interactive Storytelling in the Classroom," 
with Dr. Erik Jacobson
Platform: Google Meet
Tuesday, January 17, 2022
​11 am - 12:30 pm
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"Teaching Beginner ESL Students Through Ventures,"
with Maria Paduano
Platform: Zoom
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
11 am - 12:30 pm
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"Grammar Instruction that Works,"
 with Catherine Mitch
Platform: Google Meet
Thursday, November 17, 2022
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
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"Teaching Listening Skills,"
with Carol Cochi, Ph.D.
Platform: Google Meet
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
11 am – 12:30 pm
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"Using The Language Experience Approach,"
 with Darnelle Richardson
Platform: Google Meet
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
​11 am - 12:30 pm
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Winter & Spring 2023

​Online Training, by TBD
Platform: Zoom
Wednesdays, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
January 25, February 1, 8, 15, 22, & March 1, 2023

"Using Interactive Storytelling in the Classroom,"
with Dr. Erik Jacobson
Platform: Google Meet
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
10 am - 11:30 am
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Monthly Coffee Hour with Tutors

​   The monthly coffee hour is an informal video call where tutors can meet up to share experiences, discuss challenges and celebrate successes. Tutors are invited to bring resources to share with other tutors. Some monthly sessions might have a theme. The call will be facilitated by LVA's tutor support specialist Catherine Angus, who will ensure information exchanged in the meetings is distributed to all tutors, including those who can't attend. Join us!

Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 4 pm

Thursday, November. 10, 2022 at 4 pm

Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 4 pm

Thursday, January 5, 20223 at 4 pm

Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 4 pm

Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 4 pm

Thursday, April 6, 2023 4 pm

Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 4 pm

Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 4 pm

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For more information and to register for our workshops please contact us @

info@lvaep.org or (973) 566-6200 ext. 225

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Our calendar of events may be subject to change due to weather emergencies or enrollment.

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