Last semester I had the privilege of having three volunteers for each of my Monday and Wednesday classes with attendance at approximately  12 students per class.  These volunteers were from Madison House at the University of Virginia.  Some students would be working in the educational field and others were volunteering because they wanted to help.   I was thrilled to be able to use these students as one on one help with students as well as a resource for each group when we did group work.  In a number of cases, the volunteers bonded personally with the students. 



Thank you for bringing up this topic, as it is a crucial key in being able to effectively manage the various levels and backgrounds of my students. 

  

Jennifer 


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From: "Martha Bigelow" <mbigelow at umn.edu> 
To: "The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List" <englishlanguage at nifl.gov> 
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:52:59 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [EnglishLanguage 3742]  Working with Volunteers 








I’m going to offer a new topic.  Sometimes teachers with preliterate or low-literate students are lucky enough to get a volunteer.  Sometimes this person is not an educator.  Do the readers on this list have suggestions about how to maximize this opportunity?  What can be done to make the experience good for the students AND the volunteer?  If we can get volunteers hooked, they’ll be able to develop relationships with students and hopefully offer their much needed services to the program for many years. 

It would be great to hear from program administrators, teachers and volunteers themselves. 
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