Tips for the First Day of Class - May 14, 2024

• Slides

Emergency Preparedness - Patricia Heineman  (May 13, 2024)

• Slides

• Emergency Preparedness Resource References

Fall Prevention (Slides only) - Apr 25, 2024)

What does the Volunteer Coordinator Do? - Quincee Tellis (Apr 17, 2024)

What does the Learner Coordinator Do? - Luz Vidal (Apr 8, 2024)

• Slides from Learner Coordinator presentation

Using Chat GPT AI in the Classroom - Dale Ashera-Davis (Mar 20, 2024)

• Slides from Using Chat GPT in the Classroom

Mental Health is for Everyone: Jacqui Saldana with NAMI DE Feb 21, 2024

Data: why we collect it, what we do with it & how tutors can help - A presentation by Susan Trzonkowski on 2/12/2024 with an analysis of the data submitted by Tutors and why that data is important.

Trauma in the Classroom - Kathy Seemans (January 8, 2024)  "As a nation, we have been traumatizing our students for  years in how we teach them to read." "The most important thing you can do for a young child that has experienced trauma is to teach them to read."

Julissa La Terapista, a new Spanish Speaking Mental Health Therapist with an office in Georgetown and an office in New Castle, talks about the service she provides to the Hispanic population in DE (12/11/2023).

Health Literacy (Jacki Hagelberg - Nov 15, 2023) - A presentation to define what health literacy is, and how we can help our students become more health literate and to use the health care system most effectively.

• Slides (PDF)

The First Month with Low Level EL Learners (video) - Dale Ashera-Davis (Nov 13, 2023)

• Slides (PDF)

• Comprehension Cards (PDF)

Literacy Delaware Intranet - Rich Carver (Sep 6, 2023) - Below are the links for  the periodic mail messages mentioned in the presentation

• English Class 101

• Teachers Pay Teachers

• Linguahouse

• Speak Confident English

  • Online lessons from Speak Confident English

Literacy Delaware AmeriCorps members share their experiences

• Session 1 - Afternoon (June 21, 2023)

• Session 2 - Evening (June 28, 2023)

Why We Ask You to Enter Your Tutor Hours (Mar 30, 2023)

Accent Modification Ideas  for Literacy Delaware  Tutors

8-18-2021 Tutor Coffee Hour - Recording videos, Zoom Tips, Sending texts via email, Finding and inserting images

Claire Sullivan - Teaching ESL Jan 26, 2022 - Suggestions for teaching ESL from someone who has taught English in numerous countries and in many situations.  Cited references are below:

• • Oxford Picture Dictionary, 2nd Ed 

  • Fundamentals of English Grammar Azar 3rd Ed 2003 

  • Grammar Essentials: Graded Exercises in English Dixson 2004

Basic Immigration Information (Lesmayra Bautista & Bryant Garcia from La Esperanza) - February 23, 2022