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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Winter & Spring 2020
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Allwood Branch, Clifton Public Library, by Darnelle Richardson
44 Lyall Road, Clifton, NJ 07012 Saturdays 1:00-4:00 pm April 4, 11, 18, 25, May 2, & 9, 2020 Bloomfield Public Library, by Mary O’Connor 90 Broad Street, Bloomfield NJ 07003 Tuesdays 10:00 am-1:00 pm Feb. 25, March 3, 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2020 Montclair Public Library, by Mary Kao 50 South Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042 Saturdays, 12:15-3:45 pm January 11, 18, 25, Feb. 1, 8, & 15, 2020 |
"Coffee with Friends," with Students & Tutors
Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, Library Theater Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, February 11, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm "Taking the Mystery out of Lesson Plans," with Ann Moore Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, January 21, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF |
Fall 2019
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Bloomfield Public Library, by Mary O’Connor
90 Broad Street, Bloomfield, NJ, 07003 Tuesdays, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm November 5, 12, 19, 26, & December 3, & 10, 2019 West Orange Public Library, by Barbara Bagger 46 Mt. Pleasant Avenue, West Orange, Nj 07052 Wednesdays, 6:00-9:00 pm Oct. 16, 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, & 20, 2019 Cancelled Maplewood Library - by Carolyn Van Doren 51 Baker Street, Maplewood, NJ 07040 Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Oct. 15, 17, 22, 24, 29, & 31, 2019 Montclair Public Library, by Mary Kao 50 South Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042 Saturdays, 12:15-3:45 pm September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2019 |
"Getting Your Students Writing," with Caitlyn Pezza
Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, December 17, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF "Easy Guide for Working with Small Groups," with Barbara Hathaway and Nancy Lama Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Thursday, November 14, 2019, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF "Understanding Students’ Barriers," with Cristhian Barcelos Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF Pickard - Beder - Jacobson "Teaching Non-Fiction Reading," with Erik Jacobson (Canceled) Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF "Teaching Struggling Readers," with Nora Devine (Canceled) Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF |
For more information and to register for our workshops please contact Ellen Rooney Martin @
emartin@lvaep.org or (973) 566-6200 ext. 217
emartin@lvaep.org or (973) 566-6200 ext. 217
Our calendar of events may be subject to change due to weather emergencies or enrollment.