LEARNER CENTERED TUTORING

Adults come to our program for a variety of reasons.  We meet them where they are and strive toward helping them develop skills necessary to make them successful and reach their goals. 

Some of the things a tutor may assist with are:

• Job related reading and writing
• Basic computer skills including Internet and e-mail

(Limited to Literacy Program participants)

• Reading comprehension and vocabulary
• General civic knowledge and map skills
• Daily life math skills
• Capitalization and punctuation
• Using the library
• Phonics and spelling
• Reading aloud
• Handwriting
• Study skills

Success Stories

• Earned a GED
• Able to get a job for the first time in her life
• Read a book to his/her child
• Enrolled in a community college
• Wrote a letter to the newspaper or a relative
• Wrote a love poem
• Discovered reading glasses were a key
• Requested and got a job promotion
• Entered a college teaching program

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