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Recruit a “supply tutor”
who fills in for tutors who are sick or on holidays . |
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Set up a book club for students
supervised by staff or a volunteer. |
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Have tutors assist learners to get
an email address through Hotmail or Excite, and then ask the tutors to work
with the learners on basic email techniques. |
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Train a volunteer to conduct a small
group session for both tutors and students on how to search the Internet.
Tutors can then use the information obtained during the search to reinforce
vocabulary and writing skills. |
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Offer students the opportunity to
take on extra work supervised by staff, volunteers or peers. |
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Recruit
two tutors for each learner so they can offer the student more hours and fill
in for each other when one is not available |
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Offer a
general interest workshop at your agency for all students to attend (resume
writing, job search techniques, keeping a job, etc.) |
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Start a
student reading circle supervised by staff or a volunteer |
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Offer
flexible programming that uses various teaching methods that learners can
relate to (classroom, one-to-one, small group, peer tutoring, computer-based
and training modules linked to the LBS levels) |
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Offer a
highly supportive, friendly and comfortable environment so that students will
enjoy coming to your program and will refer family and friends |
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Offer
small group instruction in addition to one-to-one tutoring (use CLO’s
“Small Talk – A Resource Guide for Using Small Groups”!)
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Use
AlphaRoute and other computer-based learning for both one-to-one and small
group instruction |
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Support
learners with computer-based learning, interactive software and the
Internet—most learners really enjoy this! |
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Start a
student computer club supervised by staff or a volunteer |
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Offer an
“open night” at your agency each month—an evening when any
student can come by with homework, forms or letters they need help with and
receive support from staff, volunteers or peers |
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Hold a
workshop about plant safety and upgrading at the local plant
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