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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Fall 2020
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Online Training, by Barbara Hathaway
Platform: Zoom Thursdays 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm October 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2020 |
"Writing Prompts for the Classroom," with, Dr. Erik Jacobson
Platform: Zoom Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 11 am - 12:30 pm Download PDF "Helping Students Overcome Their Fear of Speaking," with, Abby Kane Platform: Zoom Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Download PDF "Laughter is the Best Teacher, " with, Lisa Batitto Platform: Zoom Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Download PDF "Making Distance Learning More Engaging," with Ann Moore Platform: Zoom Wednesday, August 12,2020, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Download PDF |
Winter & Spring 2020
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Hilton Branch, Maplewood Public Library- by Carolyn VanDoren
1688 Springfield Avenue, Maplewood, NJ 07040 Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00 am-Noon June 2, 4, 9, 11, 16 & 18, 2020 CANCELED 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 CANCELED 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 |
"Sharing Strategies for Distance Learning," with Christina Rahaal
Platform: Zoom Thursday, June 25, 2020, 11:00 am - 11:40 am Download PDF "Tutoring in Today’s World," with Karen Cardell, Amy Mahoney, Ann Moore, Mary O’Connor Platform: Zoom Thursday, June 4, 2020, 11:00 am - 11:40 am Download PDF "Writing Your Own Story," with Kaitlyn Pezza Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF CANCELED "Helping Struggling Readers," with Gery Gill Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF CANCELED “Cultural Sensitivity and Reducing Microaggressions,” with Diane Giachetti Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Thursday, March 26, 2020, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF CANCELED "Mediation and Conflict Resolution," with Cindy Castañeda & Christopher Castro Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, Library Theater Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 10:00am - 3:00 pm Download PDF "Coffee with Friends," with Students & Tutors Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, Library Theater Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 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, 2020, 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.