Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:07:09 +0000
From: vicki
Subject: Interested in tutoring adults? Get trained and volunteer with Chatham Literacy
The Chatham Literacy Council needs you as a tutor for English as a Second Language (ESL). You have skills that are in desperate need in Pittsboro and Siler City — skills that will make a real difference in the lives of people in our community, skills that will make you believe in, and proud of, your ability to make a difference.
Eunice Collins, a volunteer tutor, shares her thoughts on tutoring, “Since October last year, I’ve driven to Siler City (a tranquil 30 minute drive from Fearrington) every Thursday to meet with a group of five Hispanic women. The women are in their early 30’s-40’s and they need and want to learn English. I’ve never gone to a class where no one showed, although conflicts with work or children inevitably force absences from time to time. We meet in the comfortable administrative offices of the lovely Methodist Church on Raleigh Rd. The women in my group are all married with children who speak fluent English and attend schools in Siler City. They want to learn English not only to enhance their opportunities for work, but to maintain ties with their children. From time to time, a child will come to class with her/his mother, and I get an insight into a world where she, my student, is the center of a life which she only partially comprehends. Humbly, I realize how much difference a two hour English class could make in her/their lives.
This opportunity to make a difference was most forcibly proved to me by the test results of a class that Gloria Wilkins (MA, ESL, Duke) taught a couple of years ago at a school in Chatham County. At the end of that year, not only were her students found to be more proficient, but the children of those same students improved as well. Teachers like us, teachers of parents, are like rocks skimming across the water creating ripples of ability and comprehension that make a real difference.”
Please don’t miss this opportunity to discover your talents and power. Chatham Literacy Council is offering a free tutor training in September and October. All three sessions are required before being paired with an adult learner: September 21 from 10am – 3pm (lunch included); October 5 from 10am – 3pm (lunch included); and October 23 from 8am – 4pm for a poverty awareness workshop. Please email : to register or to get more specifics.
Thanks so much for considering this!
Vicki Newell
Executive Director
Chatham County Literacy Council
www.chathamliteracy.org
919-542-6424