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The Moraine Valley Community College Literacy
Program is part of a nationwide initiative promoting literacy for
adult community residents. Our main purpose is to provide individual tutoring
for adults living in our district who need help in developing essential
reading, writing, and math skills. This program provides training for volunteer
tutors who then work with students on campus or at any one of the participating
libraries or community centers in our district.
The training programs for all new volunteers
are offered two different times during the year. Each training program consists
of a series of four weeks of workshops held on the same day/s and time/s each
week, providing a total of 18 hours of training.
Fall Training Program—held
during September/October
Spring Training Program—held during April/May
Volunteers need to complete all of the required
workshops offered by the college in order to be accepted into our program. These
volunteer tutors are then ready to work individually with an adult student or to
work as tutors in the adult education classes.
Since students may enter the program at any
time during the year, tutoring assignments are made based on the availability of
tutors for the particular tutoring site and time requested by the students.
Tutoring sessions are usually scheduled for two hours, once a week, for as long
as the student remains in the program. The sessions are held mornings,
afternoons, or evenings any day of the week, including weekends. Vacations and
breaks are determined between the tutor and student. When a student attains a
reading and/or writing level above the 6th grade, he/she may then enroll in
either an adult education class or a college remedial reading class.
Assignments to work in a classroom are made
when adult education teachers need volunteer tutors to help work with students
during the class session. These teachers provide the materials and books that
the students would be using.
Tutors who are working individually with
students must maintain required record-keeping forms. Tutors who work as
teacher aides in classrooms must report their hours at the end of each semester.
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