Volunteer Opportunities
- Volunteer Opportunities with Adult One-on-One Tutoring
The adult tutoring program serves adults who would like to improve their basic literacy skills, and those who would like to learn to speak, read, and write English. Students and teachers meet at mutually agreeable times and places --public libraries are often chosen as meeting places. Tutoring schedules are flexible. Tutors spend on average two hours a week tutoring their student. The Literacy Council Project is a resource for the tutors for instructional materials, training, support, and sometimes as a meeting place for tutoring sessions.
Our demand for volunteer tutors remains high. If you are interested in helping others improve their literacy so that they can achieve their personal, educational, and work-related goals, please submit a Volunteer Intake form. The Literacy Council Project provides training for volunteer literacy tutors prior to matching new tutors with a student. (A teaching background is not required.)
Training for New Tutors
Our next training session will take place May 20 and May 26, 2009. Prior to training, we will provide a New Tutor Orientation on May 13, 2009.
The training sessions will give new tutors an overview of what they need to know to get started tutoring an adult learner. The sessions include a discussion of learning styles, lesson planning, cultural diversity, and reading instruction basics. The orientation session will provide new tutors with information on the Family Resource Center, our One-on-One Adult Tutoring program philosophy, and the responsibilities of tutors and students.
Please call 920-457-1888 or email frcliteracy@excel.net for more information and to register. -
Volunteer Opportunities with Partners in Reading
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Partners in Reading is a reading enrichment program available to all public and private elementary schools in Sheboygan County. The program focuses on students in kindergarten through third grades, matching volunteer reading partners with students to provide the students additional one-on-one or small-group reading opportunities.
The Literacy Council Project provides training and support for Partner in Reading volunteers. Partners in Reading volunteers meet with their assigned students on a regular basis at the student’s school. The minimum weekly volunteer time commitment is one half-hour to an hour. All reading enrichment takes place at the school, during the school day. Volunteers can request placement at a particular school, and every effort is made to honor those requests. Prospective volunteers submit a Volunteer Intake form and attend orientation prior to beginning as a Partner in Reading.
Our next training for new Partner in Reading volunteers will be in the fall of 2009. If you would like to be notified about this training opportunity when the details are available, please call or email the Literacy Council.
For more information on volunteer opportunities with the Literacy Council, or to sign up for our next orientation session, please contact Jo Ann Dent at frcliteracy@excel.net, 920-457-1888 or 920-892-6706.