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 2018
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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 Bloomfield Public Library -by Sable Lomax 90 Broad Street Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00- 3:00 pm October 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, & 18 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 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 |
"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 "A Single Step: Putting Yourself in the Shoes of the Learners," with Faleeha Hassan Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, Library Theater Bloomfield, NJ 07003 TBD, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm "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 |
Winter & Spring 2018
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Park United Methodist Church -by Carolyn Van Doren
12 Park Street, Childcare Center Basement Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm April 23, 25, 30, May 2, 7, & 9, 2018 Clifton Public Library -by Darnelle Richardson 292 Piaget Avenue Clifton, NJ 07011 Saturdays, 1:00–4:15 pm April 7, 14, 28, May 5 & 12, 2018 Belleville Public Library -by Nina Peyser 221 Washington Avenue Belleville, NJ 07109 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:00-3:00 pm March 13, 15, 20, 22, 27, & 29, 2018 Montclair Public Library -by Mary Kao 50 South Fullerton Avenue, Literacy Room Montclair, NJ 07042 Saturdays, 12:15-3:45 pm January 27, February 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2018 |
"Teaching Vocabulary with Pictures," with Mary Kao
Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, June 5, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF "Strategies for Teaching Decoding and Word Analysis Skills to Adult Literacy Students Part 2," with Nora Devine Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Monday, May 7, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF "Activities for English Conversation Groups," with Antonio A. Brugnoli Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF "Getting Started with your Students," with Mary O’Connor Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PFD "Activities for English Conversation Groups," with Antonio A. Brugnoli Bloomfield Public Library 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm Canceled due to Extreme Weather Conditions Download PDF "How to Address Reading Needs for your Students and Lead Them to Success," with Bethany Blankenbeckler 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Tuesday, February 27, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF "Strategies for Teaching Decoding and Word Analysis Skills to Adult Literacy Students," with Nora Devine 90 Broad Street, 2nd Floor Boardroom Bloomfield, NJ 07003 Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm Download PDF |
For more information and to register for our workshops please contact Ellen Rooney Martin at emartin@lvaep.org or (973) 566-6200 ext. 217