Introduction

Program Overview

• This program was designed to give volunteers some basic tools for tutoring ESL learners in a short period of time, and to make the lives of facilitators a bit easier by providing ready-to-use overheads and additional handouts.
• The program consists of 8 sessions that take approximately two to three hours each to complete. Suggested time guidelines are included in the facilitator manual, but may need to be modified dependent upon the needs of your group.
• We recognize that this may not meet the needs of organizations that may find it difficult to get trainees together for eight separate sessions. Sessions can be adopted for one-on-one use. Another alternative would be for facilitators to present only the sessions deemed most necessary by the tutor trainees.
• Some facilitators may find that rearranging the order of the sessions may be useful. For example, session 3 may be easier for tutors if it is presented at the end of the program.
• For those programs that have some downtime between sessions, there are also preview and review assignments included to ensure that tutor trainees have additional practice and that there is more continuity between sessions.