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Given that a lot of the services adult literacy programs provide are delivered by volunteer tutors, teachers, and support staff, it’s not surprising that recruiting and retaining volunteers is a consistent concern.
The goal is to attract volunteers to your adult literacy program and then keep them coming back. When you look at the big picture, it’s easier than you think.
According to the 2000 National Survey of Giving, Volunteering, and Participating, there are four main reasons people don’t volunteer.
Let’s talk about something that many programs have dealt with: when new volunteers sign up but don’t complete their training or take assignments.
How do you keep a tutor engaged during times when they might not be paired with a student?
Volunteers are vital to the success of students and the literacy programs that serve them.
This research brief provides strategies and practices for recruiting adult basic education (ABE) learners, emphasizing data collection, community engagement, word-of-mouth marketing, diverse campaigns, and partnerships for enrollment success and continuous improvement.
In this webinar, Dr. Carol Clymer and Dr. Shannon Frey discuss strategies for recruiting learners to Adult Basic Education programs, especially during the pandemic. They share research on motivations and obstacles, and participants exchange ideas and challenges.
Louwane and Mark Courtney volunteer as remote ESL tutors through ProLiteracy member program Aspire.
Instructing and supporting the volunteer tutors in partnering with students, Heather Tovey is left in awe every day.
At Literacy Volunteers of the New River Valley (LVNRV) in Virginia, Anne Larsen is known as their “Wonder Woman” because she’s saved the day time and again.
Here are some simple, low-prep steps you can take to retain adult learners in your classes.
The issue includes research articles covering topics such as metaphors of reading and teaching reading, explorations of the interface between learning theory and practice in adult basic education, and reflections from teaching basic adult literacy. It also includes forum discussions on Covid-19 and the future of adult education, risk literacy value of literacy for migrant women, and student retention.
What can I do to make my community a better place to live? The answer: Volunteer for your local literacy program!
Teacher Training Plus provides training and support to tutors and teachers after they begin instruction, equipping them to effectively and efficiently serve learners.
Over the past few years, as programs were challenged at every turn, two of our member programs found ways to thrive.
Building and Growing Apprenticeship with Equity in Mind: An Equitable Apprenticeships Toolkit is a valuable resource supporting diverse and equitable apprenticeship programs, providing tools and guidance for program design, recruitment, training, and support.
Gerno Allen knew he wanted to enlist in the U.S. Army, but he would need to pass the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, a test that measures a young adult’s strength and potential success for military training.
ProLiteracy engages donors, volunteers, advocates, sponsors, members, and partners to advance its mission.
It can be difficult to prepare new tutors for the different learning styles and situations they might encounter when they meet their students.
This course presents an overview of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, a learning theory that describes how all human beings have a variety of capacities or intelligences to learn and accomplish most tasks in life.
Webinars that focus on components of reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills for native English-speaking students who are at or below the 5th grade level. Topics include goal setting, alphabetics, and reducing writing anxiety.
Webinars that focus on skills necessary for obtaining the GED and HiSET. Topics include various aspects of reading and writing around these exams and how to effectively prepare students for success.
This Report from the Field highlights an eight-week program called Steps for Success that Literacy New Jersey implemented to rebuild and grow its capacity to serve basic literacy students.
The new ESL series from New Readers Press uses entertaining stories as the basis to teach vocabulary, grammar, spelling, syntax, pronunciation, and more.
Ruth is the founder of Literacy Volunteers of America, which she started in 1962. In 2002, Literacy Volunteers of America merged with Laubach Literacy to become ProLiteracy. Ruth is an honorary member of the board of directors of Literacy New…
Webinars that focus on strategies and instruction for students who range from preliterate to high beginning levels. Topics include speaking, listening, phonics, grammar, and lesson planning.
Doug Cook is driven by passion. It’s something he’s learned about himself since becoming a math and science tutor at ProLiteracy member program, Center of Hope, in Parker County, Texas, four years ago.
Mary Krenceski has created her own curriculum based on what she sees—literally—at the ceramics factory where she teaches English as a second language.
In the five years Russell Joy has volunteered at Literacy Mid-South, he's built a loyal following of students, many of whom have expressed that he’s the best English teacher they’ve ever had.
Carrie Rabbia is the Director of Human Resources for ProLiteracy. She is responsible for all areas of the Human Resources department, including employee relations, organizational development, recruitment, benefits administration, and Federal and NYS compliance with employment laws and regulations. Carrie…
As a teacher or someone who runs a literacy program, you want learners to stay in class long enough to reach their educational goals. This is a four-course series on adult student persistence.
This video shows how to view dashboards and run reports on tutors, staff, and students for users who have requested a custom login page and are listed as forum moderators.
This webinar addresses the ongoing issue of learner persistence in Adult Basic Education (ABE). How practitioners define and view persistence will inform the actions they take.
Enrollment in federally funded adult education programs (ABE, ASE, and EL) has experienced a continuous and substantial decline since the 1990s. ABE/ASE enrollment decreased by 65.8% and EL enrollment by 49.2% since 2000-2001. This paper describes the need for investigation and discussion on this long-standing trend.
This research discusses the importance of motivation in the learning process and provides an overview of four dominant theoretical perspectives on motivation in education: goal theory, expectancy-value theory, attribution theory, and self-determination theory.
The research brief discusses the issue of learner persistence in adult basic education (ABE) programs. It explores two perspectives on persistence: a control/prevent perspective and an acknowledge/accommodate perspective.
ProLiteracy hosts a biennial conference focused on adult literacy education.
When Desire Barb first enrolled at Seeds of Literacy, in Cleveland, Ohio, she was reading just below an eighth-grade level.
Literacy Volunteers of Greater Augusta adapted its first-time silent auction, Blind Date with a Book, to a virtual format, increasing community awareness and fundraising success.
Fifty years: Few others have dedicated as much time to one adult literacy program. Sandra Malone has.
Webinars that focus on strategies and instruction for students who range from intermediate to advanced levels. Topics include using conversation and goal setting for real world applications.
We are leading you out of 2023 with 12 quotes about instructors’ experiences to inspire you in the new year.
Proliteracy is an expert in adult education that serves small community-based organizations and large adult education programs and institutions.
I want to take the opportunity to reflect on the gratitude I feel to be part of the ProLiteracy community and its mission and share the 2023 Annual Impact Report.
ProLiteracy invited Felicia, a mother of four who is on a journey to learn how to read and write, to experience voice-cloning technology to recreate her voice, allowing her to narrate passages from children's books.
Seventeen years ago, after teaching one semester in the adult literacy program at Neuhaus Education Center in Bellaire, Texas, Suz Hall knew she had found her second career.
Teacher Beng Sawete became a literacy instructor and now works with our partner program in Cambodia to fulfill the organization’s mission by developing materials for its Kavet Bilingual Literacy Program.
As an ESL instructor, Melody Ruddell takes time to listen to her students, understand their cultures, and connect with them.
