November/December Volunteer Training Series

This training series prepares participants to teach or assist in English classes provided by the English Skills Learning Center. Each session is facilitated by ESLC staff members who come to training with years of experience teaching adult English language learners. Training activities are focused on how adults learn language, how the ESLC approaches teaching, and considerations for working with adults. Each activity in training also is an opportunity for modeling the types of learning activities the ESLC values in a hands-on, engaging, and discussion-oriented classroom.

Session 1: Adults and Language Learning

Session 1 is an introduction to how adults learn. Participants will be introduced to important considerations for working with adult learners as well as how trauma affects language learning. Additionally, participants get to experience language learning in an immersive Total Physical Response activity in order to draw attention to the importance of repetition in language learning. Participants will also…