Request Training for Volunteers in Your Program

Request Training for Volunteers in Your Program

Did you know that Literacy Minnesota offers by-request training that can be catered to the topic, format and schedule of your volunteers? It’s true! Literacy Minnesota can schedule webinar or in-person training at a time that fits the schedule of your program about a topic of your choosing. This can be a great way to check off that ongoing 2-hour annual training requirement in one fell swoop and build community among the volunteers in your program. See available by-request trainings below.

For volunteers working with…

 Any level

• Overview of Minnesota Adult Education and ABE Accountability
• Understanding Adult Learners
• Instructional Best Practices: Working with Learners
• Instructional Best Practices: Working with Materials
• Tips and Strategies for Online Instruction
• Essential Zoom Skills for Online Instruction
• Tips and Strategies for Adult Education Math Tutors

 Beginning English language learners

• Working with Beginning Literacy and Beginning Level Learners
• Writing Activities for Beginning Literacy and Beginning English Language Learners
• Reading Activities for Beginning Literacy and Beginning English Language Learners
• Phonics in Beginning Adult ESL: Recommendations, Activities and Resources

Intermediate/advanced English language learners through GED

• Developing and Practicing Reading Fluency
• Teaching Reading Vocabulary Remotely or In-Person
• Comprehension Strategies for Intermediate Level Readers
• Teaching Intermediate Alphabetics
• Helping Students Build Word Part Knowledge

Visit our Volunteer Foundations Page to read full descriptions of the session listed above.

Topics found within these trainings can also be mixed and matched to create a training that fits the needs of the volunteers in your program. For example, if most of your volunteers work with beginning literacy learners, you could request a training covering reading and writing activities for beginning literacy. Or, information about teacher talk, error correction and scaffolding can be combined to create a customized training to help volunteers in your program develop and hone these skills.

At least ten volunteers must be available to attend by-request trainings. Please contact Tutor Training Coordinator Meghan Boyle at [email protected] to ask questions or request training. If getting ten of your volunteers together at the same time is not possible, you can always utilize our convenient asynchronous video trainings as well as our live webinars to provide training to volunteers.