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Please consider becoming a volunteer tutor. It only takes three hours a week to help someone overcome a lifetime of struggle. Let us know if you would like to learn more about becoming a tutor.

Tutor Training Schedule

New Tutor Training is held each month. Contact the Lancaster or Lebanon Office to get started.

Monthly Professional Development for Tutors:

October 15, 2008-Test is a Four Letter Word

2:00 pm at Country Inn & Suites, Route 72 in Manheim

Take a look in side the BEST and TABE tests. Learn how students are evaluated and how you can help prepare them for their next evaluation.

Novmeber 19, 2008-Reading Strategies 

Learn about the four components of reading and the strategies stduents need to improve their reading comprehension.

December 11, 2008-Let's Party!   

Drop in to solicalize with staff and tutors. Information will be available for on-line teaching resources.     

January 14, 2009-Listen Up

Explore different types of listening activities for ESL students at all levels. 

February 11, 2009-Get  Real

Learn how to make your lesson plans more relevant and contextualized by using real-life materials.

March 11, 2009-Up Close and Personal

Hear an expert discuss learning differences and how to make accomondation for your students.

April 15, 2009-The Write Stuff

Learn how to help our students with low-level writing skills improve sentence structure and begin to add detail to their writing.

May 13, 2009-Fear No Math

Learn how to teach the basic math skills that students need for the GED, post secondary eduation and the real world.