Just a reminder to all of you wonderful tutors that we need to receive a report from you each month to keep us up to date on how things are going with your learner.  Please take a few minutes to click here and send us a report on all of the good work you do!

 

The Whatcom Literacy Council office will be closed in July for a summer break.  Our office will re-open in August.

U.S.A. Learns can be used in a variety of ways. Use it during tutoring sessions with your learner as a way to practice English, reading or computer skills. Or demonstrate how to use it with your learner so they feel comfortable accessing it at home or at the library in their free time. Even if you don't have access to a computer during sessions, it may provide new ideas for what to incorporate in your lessons such as appropriate topics, stories to print out and use in a lesson and follow-up games and comprehension quizzes. 

One challenge in tutoring has been finding creative ways to tackle the same issue, so the learner doesn't feel bored or overwhelmed. The most rewarding part of being a tutor is seeing the way the things we work on make a real difference in the everyday life of the learner. The areas we focus on - from pronunciation to grammar - hugely impact the learner's success and comfort at their job or in other interaction with people in the community. Feeling more confident and able to express themselves affects their quality of life in a really fundamental way.