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- Tutoring program gives students a leg up
- Tutoring program pairs residents, employees at Gaithersburg senior community
- eAgeTutor.com Launches Customized, Online Tutoring Service
| Tutoring program gives students a leg up Posted: 23 Feb 2011 02:13 AM PST Tuesday, February 22, 2011 10:44 PM EST SOUTHINGTON — For the first time, Southington High School now has an after-school tutoring program for students. The program, which is taught by seniors in the National Honor Society, is aimed at helping students in specific subjects that they need additional guidance. Currently, the only students taking advantage of the help are with the football team. "I am surprised more students are not getting tutored," said DJ Hernandez, program coordinator and the school's football coach. "We began this because we wanted something to offer the kids after school. The kids that are struggling need structure." The room where the tutoring takes place, Hernandez said, "is quiet. Students only need to bring their books and ask the tutors questions if they have any." The tutor study program, which began in December, is held from 2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Monday and Thursday at the high school. There are about 50 members of the National Honor Society, of which there are about four tutors for each session. About 10-15 students take advantage of the program. According to Tim Brown, an 18-year-old senior who oversees the National Honor Society, "This is better than a one-on-one tutoring program. If one of the tutors does not have an expertise in a certain subject, there is a good chance another tutor will." "It's good to help out the school community," said Brown, who said he is "great in math and science. Questions on English, though, I will have to pass on to someone else." Eighteen-year-old Kara Baker oversees the tutors for the tutoring program. She said the program "is very rewarding. It is great for everybody. Everyone can use a little help. Seniors have been through everything and they have a lot to offer the other kids." For more information on the tutoring program, which his held in Room C 13-14 of Southington High School, call the high school at (860) 628-3229. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Tutoring program pairs residents, employees at Gaithersburg senior community Posted: 23 Feb 2011 02:03 AM PST Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011 by Danielle E. Gaines | Staff Writer When Marilyn Gaut met Loc Nguyen, the quiet immigrant from Vietnam worked in a dining room at Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg, but was not comfortable conversing in English. Gaut, manager of an Asbury program that pairs residents of the retirement community with employees there, taught Nguyen through four English-language workbooks and then helped her enroll in a conversation class to become more comfortable speaking. Nguyen wanted to improve her English skills and study nursing here; she held a nursing certificate in Vietnam before she left. Nguyen improved so much that Gaut is now trying to help her enroll in nursing courses at Montgomery College, though Nguyen said she wants to hold off on her own education until her daughter graduates from college. "I plan on being here four years from now, bugging you," Gaut warned on a recent afternoon as the women read a newspaper. Through the tutoring program, Asbury residents donate their time to teach the employees English and Asbury Methodist Village picks up the $15 charge for the students' workbooks and registration. The program is run by the Literacy Council of Montgomery County. The council trains new tutors and supplies the textbooks. Then, residents are matched with staff members who express interest, and the pairs meet once or twice a week. The program was started by the late Beth Kilgore, who founded the Literacy Council of Montgomery County in 1963. Kilgore created the Asbury program in 1991 when she moved into the community. In the 15 years since, more than five dozen Asbury residents have volunteered to teach English to more than 100 workers who are first-generation immigrants to America. Residents have tutored students from Bolivia, Cameroon, China, Columbia, El Salvador, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Zaire, Gaut said. Montgomery County has a burgeoning need in for programs like the one at Asbury. One in seven Montgomery County residents, or about 132,000 people, have a limited ability to communicate in English, compared with 60,000 residents who were not proficient in 1990, according to a July report from the Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy, a nonprofit organization that provides support to literacy programs, including the Literacy Council. More than 90 providers offer literacy programs in Montgomery County, said Marty Stephens, the Literacy Council's executive director. About 800 tutors, trained by the Literacy Council, serve about 1,600 adult learners each year, Stephens said. Some 80 percent of students in the tutoring program are foreign-born residents. Residents who complete all four levels of the program are literate at a fourth-grade level and can read prescriptions, call emergency services and navigate grocery stores. Resident Alma Stewart, 87, is working through the second workbook with her student, Nicole Ngalamo, a 34-year-old caregiver at Asbury's assisted living building who was born in Cameroon and speaks fluent French. The duo meets as often as they can – Ngalamo's 12-hour shifts sometimes make scheduling difficult –at Stewart's dining room table. In addition to learning English, Ngalamo wants to learn to write cursive. Stewart has tutored five people since she moved to Asbury eight years ago. Stewart thinks it is easiest for new English speakers to learn how to read and write first, before they become completely comfortable speaking in public. "We try to encourage everyone just to talk, even if it's wrong," she said. "You can't hold back until you think everything is going to be absolutely perfect; it doesn't work." Her students often take the class as a starting point to gain U.S. citizenship, Stewart said. She helped a maintenance worker's wife, who was born in Sri Lanka, with that task last year. "I've really come to appreciate the fact that we're blessed in this country and we don't have to move to another country to find opportunity," Stewart said. "When they come here, it is not easy." dgaines@gazette.net This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| eAgeTutor.com Launches Customized, Online Tutoring Service Posted: 23 Feb 2011 02:00 AM PST Press Release Source: eAgeTutor.com On Wednesday February 23, 2011, 5:00 am EST LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- eAgeTutor.com announced today the launch of its online tutoring offerings: individualized, live tutoring for both struggling and exceptional students. With three offerings—diagnostic-based eAge Excellence Programs with customized learning plans, eAge Homework Help for course assistance, and the eAge SAT Preparation Program, eAgeTutor.com offers a suite of one-on-one online tutoring for students at half the cost of traditional tutoring centers. As part of its launch, eAgeTutor.com is providing one hour of free tutoring for a limited time as well as a free diagnostic test, itself a $250 value. eAgeTutor assembled a team of highly qualified American school teachers and university instructors, e-learning experts, and software developers to design their standards-based tests and teaching materials. The result is a high quality, highly effective learning program for students in grades four through twelve. Kevin Ward, a Louisiana school teacher who piloted the program, spoke about the value of the service: "It identifies the fundamental skills that are affecting student performance, and then provides targeted, one-on-one instruction to address student needs." Chander Madan, CEO of eAgeTutor, explained the service. "After taking their initial diagnostic tests, students schedule a session with their tutor. They then meet in a fully secure, multimedia online classroom where the instructor can share learning materials, watch animations, see the student work out problems, and talk to each other." "With classrooms of 20 and 30 students, it can be really difficult for students who don't get it the first time," explains Erin Bowling, a public school teacher in Kentucky. "They need one-on-one time that teachers don't have." Research shows that online tutoring is as or more effective than face-to-face tutoring, and one-on-one environments have been shown to be highly effective in promoting faster learning gains. And, as Madan points out, the tutoring is more convenient as well. "Students can schedule sessions at anytime and access them anywhere an Internet connection is available, even on their iPhone, and all sessions are fully recorded. They can be reviewed by students and parents. There is no driving to learning centers or having strangers come into your home. It is easier, safer, and greener." To take advantage of the free tutoring and test offer, register online today at eAgeTutor.com. Follow Yahoo! Finance on ; become a fan on Facebook. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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