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 2019
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Hilton Branch, Maplewood Memorial Library -by Carolyn Van Doren
1688 Springfield Avenue Maplewood, NJ 07040 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:00 am-12:00 pm June 4, 6, 11, 13, 18 & 20, 2019 Clifton Public Library -by Darnelle Richardson 292 Piaget Avenue Clifton, NJ 07011 Saturdays, 1:00-4:30 pm March 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30, 2019 Bloomfield Public Library -by Sable Lomax 90 Broad Street, Second Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesdays, 10:00 am–1:00 pm February 5, 12, 19, 26, March 5, & 12, 2019 Montclair Public Library -by Mary Kao 50 South Fullerton Avenue, Literacy Room Montclair, NJ 07042 Saturdays, 12:15-3:45 pm January 26, February 2, 9, 16, & 23, 2019 |
"Coffee with Friends," with Students & Tutors
Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, Library Theater Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, June 11, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm Taking the Mystery out of Lesson Planning, with Ann Moore Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF Who We Are and What We Do, with Cristhian Barcelos Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Thursday, April 25, 2019, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF Writing Prompts Using Art, with Kathryn Waggener McGuire Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF Taking the Fear out of Speaking, with Darnelle Richardson Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Thursday, February 21, 2018, 11 :00 am -12:30 pm Download PDF “Focus on Grammar,” with Mary O’Connor Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, January 8, 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
Ongoing Groups
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English-Spanish Language Exchange
Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Thursdays 12:00-1:30 pm |
Tutor Support Group
Park United Methodist Church 12 Park St, Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Fourth Tuesday of the month 12:30-2:00 pm |
Due to weather emergencies or enrollment our calendar of events may be subject to change.
Fall 2018
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Hilton Branch, Maplewood Memorial Library -by Mary O"Connor
1688 Springfield Avenue Maplewood, NJ 07040 Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00–4:00 pm October 17, 22, 24, 29, 31 & November 5, 2018 West Orange Public Library -by Mary Kao 46 Mount Pleasant Avenue West Orange, NJ 07052 Wednesday 6:00-9:00 pm October 10, 17, 24, 31, November 7, & 14 Montclair Public Library -by Mary Kao 50 South Fullerton Avenue, Literacy Room Montclair, NJ 07042 Saturdays, 12:15-3:45 pm September 8, 15, 22, 29, and October 6, 2018 |
"Understanding Adult Education," with Cristhian Barcelos
Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Thursday, December 6, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF "Preparing Students for the NJALL Adult Learner Writing Contest," with Erik Jacobson Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Thursday, November 15, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF "A Single Step: Putting Yourself in the Shoes of the Learners," with Faleeha Hassan & Emily Vosseller Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, Library Theater Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Monday, October 29, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF "Coffee with Friends," with Students & Tutors Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, Library Theater Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm "Using Mindfulness in Tutoring," with Matt Ford Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Monday, September 10, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF |