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Spring I Tutor Lunch & Learn Training: Fostering Growth & Engagement - February 19, 2025

Follow along as ACLC Program Coordinator, Nicole Buhrman, leads us through 7 skills that will help us engage adult learners. Learn about how using growth mindset, positive motivation, and other effective teaching strategies - including examples of scaffolding - can encourage your learners to develop attitudes of persistent learning and gain confidence in and out of class! Check out the resources to the left to review items as often as you like.

Creating Supplemental & Supportive Activities - November 20, 2024

Fall Tutor Lunch & Learn II - This 2nd Quarter Training focuses on the many ways tutors can create easy, supportive activities to help learners engage with materials in meaningful and multi-layered ways - and help them retain the information! Learn how to create activities with every day items, board and cards games, and by using online resources.

Fall Tutor Lunch & Learn I - August 21, 2024

Welcome to Program Year 2024-2025!

This session, volunteers were provided with important updates about new safety and security protocols at each literacy council and were introduced to the new CASAS STEPS (ESL) and GOALS (ABE) assessments tools the literacy councils are now using. These tools also come with easy to use/read results to streamline lesson and activity planning based on students results. Lots of great information to start the new program year!

Spring Tutor Lunch & Learn II - May 15, 2024

This session highlights the PA Adult Education Resource website and monthly Tutor Webinar series. Learn how to use the PAAER website to your advantage! The main presentation is sourced from a June 6, 2022 PA Adult Education Resources Tutor and Classroom Aide webinar recording presented by Rose Gioia-Fine from TIU11. Dive into the influence of trauma in the classrooms and how to create supportive environments to foster student success. Visit PAAER's YouTube channel, subscribe and gain access to other meaningful and informative presentations designed specifically for adult education volunteer tutors!

Adult Education Reading Strategies - April 26, 2024

In this video, you will join LIU12's Adult Education Professional Learning Community (PLC). This training, hosted by guest presenter Jonathan Edwards, focuses on how to adapt lesson plans and teaching strategies to help learners of different abilities in and adult education setting. Formal instructors are the focus of this trainings, but tutors will also benefit from the shared information. For more information about reading difficulties - specifically dyslexia - refer to the Fall 2023 Tutor Training

Spring Lunch & Learn I - February 21, 2024

Join us for a unique perspective on Motivation and Engagement in the Classroom. Former ACLC ESL student, Marica Prozo, brings her experience as a student and a psychologist to this training. Listen to her story and some suggestions on how to maintain a steady flow of progress - no matter the pace! - in your classrooms. Stick around after the presentation for a few great tutor roundtable questions and solution suggestions!

Fall Lunch & Learn - November 15, 2023

Our State Monitoring results are in! Watch the video for the findings and recommendations for improvement provided by PDE - our major grantor.

Learn about some resources you may not have realized are available and hear advice and comments from each attending tutor who shared advice during the Round Table session.

Have questions about anything discussed? Reach out to your program coordinator!

Fall 2023 Tutor Training - September 27, 2023

Fall 2023 Tutor Training was held in a HyFLex format, and hosted at LIU12 FCLC. Guest presenter, Mary Ellen Moore, addresses the reasons behind reading difficulties for individuals with dyslexia and for English language learners who may not recognize certain sounds in this new-to-them language. This video includes resources, strategies, and suggested tactics for building and supporting phonemic awareness in adult learners as they streghten thier reading and speaking skills. Apologies for the video deck covering some of the slides, but the information is all good and the slide decks are below!

Additional Resources from International Dyslexia Assoc. (Thanks to Deb B. for finding this resource)

Dyslexia in the Classroom: What Every Teacher Needs to Know (PDF Handbook)

The Dyslexia-Stress-Anxiety Connection: Implications for Academic Performance and Social Interactions (PDF)

Dyslexia Fact Sheets (Informative Links)

Monitoring Information and Prep 9.27.2023

FYI's

A short slide deck outlining best practices and reviewing common terminology and adult ed policies to refresh our memories before monitoring in October!

It is all about the sound presentation.pptx

Slide Deck: Phonemic Awareness

Mary Ellen Moore's Slide deck from the above video. Slides contain active links for resources including websites, YouTube videos, and more!

Phonemic Awareness - Handout 2023.pdf

Dashboard: Phonemic Awareness

Mary Ellen Moore's Phonemic Awareness Dashboard contains active links for resources including definitions, YouTube videos for activities, etc. Live links included!

Phonics Letter Tiles Jamboard Link

Phonemic Awareness Tiles

Spring 2023 Tutor Training

Spring 2023 Tutor Training was held at both Literacy Councils in person and virtual (HyFlex) and was recorded live. You won't want to miss this training (and be sure to revisit it frequently for a refresher). Learn about connecting the community with our mission through videos and testimonials; the importance of data and how we use your reports and attendance; what testing looks like for both ESL and ABE students, what competencies are and how to use them to inform lesson plans; fantastic grammar and writing strategies for ESL and ABE; and how to connect with your personal mission and become joint stewards with other adult education tutors and staff!

Using Data To Inform Instruction: March 2023 Tutor Training (Lynsie Turner)

Using Data to Inform Instruction (Slide Deck - Lynsie Turner)

Lynsie Turner's slide deck from the Spring 2023 Tutor Training has great information about student assessments and how those test results can help tutors target areas that students may need more help with. Slide contain live links to helpful information pertaining to this important aspect of our work.

THE KEYS TO HAPPINESS

Grammar, Sentence Structure, & Paragraph (Slide Deck- Deb Barnes)

Deb Barnes' slide deck presentation from the Spring 2023 Tutor Training is chock full of great information and live links for all ESL and ABE tutors looking for Grammar strategies and resources! Bonus: Click HERE to access the resource sheet on the 12 verb tenses Deb referred to!

Finding the Why

Find Your Why and Make the Way (Slide Deck- Angie Wilt)

Angie Wilt's slide deck from the Spring 2023 Tutor training. Click the live links to connect with your "why", create a personal mission statement, and learn how to use both to become joint stewards with your fellow tutors and Lit Council staff as we all work toward student success!

Virtual Tutor Training - Fall 2022 In-service Update

In this Fall 2022 Tutor Training, we discuss updates from the Adult Education In-service from LIU12 and PDE. Angie provides information about goals for the 2022-2023 Program Year and provides updates on FCLC's agency vision and goals. An overall Professional Learning Coop (PLC) tutorial provided by Adult Ed's own Josh Rutledge is included and outlines opportunities and focuses for this program year.

Writing as a Basis for Reading and So Much More

In this LINCS Webinar, Dr. Rebeca Fernandez, an assistant professor at Davidson College, will draw on 25 years of experience in the field of language and literacy in her presentation. Participants will discover new and effective strategies to integrate writing with reading activities, as well as listening and speaking, to support English learners to enhance their academic language skills

Virtual Tutor Training Workshop: Digital Literacy and Project Based Learning

In this training, the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) are briefly introduced (we'll be visiting them more in depth throughout the coming year!) and we're visited by special guest presenter, Sara Cole, from Literacy Pittsburgh! Sara shows us some great examples of Digital Literacy and Project Based Learning. The video also features some agency updates for both ACLC and FCLC, as well as an introduction to the newest resource for tutors. The workshop wraps up with a wonderful, open conversation among the tutors about current situations with students and shared solutions for current challenges.

Teaching Skills That Matter: Civics Education In Action

This video shows the components for teaching a Civics Education lesson. You'll see Robert Lee teach a lesson about the Flint Michigan water crisis to intermediate and intermediate-high (NRS levels) English language learners in his distance learning class. Robert Lee is a Teaching Skills that Matter Coach in addition to being an ESL teacher and ESL Tutor Trainer with the Delaware County Literacy Council in Pennsylvania. In the video, you'll also hear from Betsy Parrish, an adult education subject matter expert and a TEFL/TESOL professor at Hamline University.

Resource Overview

Proliteracy Education Network! In this video, Angie goes over the features in this Tutor and Student resource!

Teaching Skills That Matter: Workforce Preparation In Action

Basic ZOOM Tutorial: How to Teach with Zoom

Great step-by-step tutorial from creating an account to tips for teaching!

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