Tutors
Tutors of Literacy in the Commonwealth (TLC) is part of the revised professional development system serving Pennsylvania’s adult education field. TLC’s focus is to increase adult learner gains by providing volunteer instructors with quality professional development opportunities and resources. As PA’s adult education professional development system evolves, TLC’s goal is to provide services that not only meet the needs of volunteer instructors and classroom aides, but that also demonstrate the effectiveness of both the instructors and the professional development opportunities supported by TLC. All adult learners involved will benefit when TLC works with agencies to provide volunteer instructors with professional development opportunities that build on previous knowledge, deepen content knowledge, support peer interactions, focus on individual needs, and continuously provide support. TLC plans to help agencies to identify and address site-specific goals which, when addressed, will allow the program to better meet the needs of their clients - the adult learners. If you would like to work with TLC to develop or support the use of volunteer instructors and classroom aides in your agency, contact Kim Rossman: kim@tlcliteracy.org, 814.867.0203.
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 Kim Rossman
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Basic Tutor Training for LIU12 Franklin County Literacy Council
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Jo Ann Fishburn 2012 Outstanding Tutor &
Bill Campbell 2011 Outstanding Tutor 
Bill Campbell 2011 Outstanding Tutor &
Laurie Anson 2010 Outstanding Tutor |
2012 Outstanding Tutor Award - Jo Ann Fishburn
Congratulations to the 2012 Outstanding Tutor, Jo Ann Fishburn of Center for Literacy’s Squirrel Hill Learning Center, Philadelphia - a place where volunteer literacy tutors meet with their adult learners. After a career as a teacher in a Philadelphia Middle School, Jo Ann is now a volunteer instructor with the Center for Literacy, currently tutoring five small groups of adult beginning readers.
Responding to the lack of educational opportunities for these students most in need, Jo Ann has been developing a simple instructional model, hoping it can be easily and inexpensively replicated by teachers and other volunteer tutors working with this population. The goal for the model is to get students to the level where they can successfully join larger ABE classes.
Harry Fishburn, Jo Ann’s son, has made a four-part video of the curriculum she is using, with lots of great commentary by her wonderful, articulate students. You can see the video at never2late2read.org.
Feel free to use the video with your students and tutors in any way you can to increase services to adult beginning readers. Please contact Jo Ann any time with questions, comments and suggestions at fishburnja@yahoo.com.
Plan to come meet Jo Ann at the PAACE Conference, attend her presentation to learn more about her instructional model, and join her as she receives this well-deserved award during the opening luncheon on March 12, 2012.
Jo Ann's response to being nominated demonstrates her commitment to adult learners: " I am very excited to be chosen because it may help further the mission of getting more instructional opportunities for adult beginning readers."
Thanks to all of you who took the time to nominate individuals for this award. It is because of you that we are able to Make a Difference!
Responding to the lack of educational opportunities for these students most in need, Jo Ann has been developing a simple instructional model, hoping it can be easily and inexpensively replicated by teachers and other volunteer tutors working with this population. The goal for the model is to get students to the level where they can successfully join larger ABE classes.
Harry Fishburn, Jo Ann’s son, has made a four-part video of the curriculum she is using, with lots of great commentary by her wonderful, articulate students. You can see the video at never2late2read.org.
Feel free to use the video with your students and tutors in any way you can to increase services to adult beginning readers. Please contact Jo Ann any time with questions, comments and suggestions at fishburnja@yahoo.com.
Plan to come meet Jo Ann at the PAACE Conference, attend her presentation to learn more about her instructional model, and join her as she receives this well-deserved award during the opening luncheon on March 12, 2012.
Jo Ann's response to being nominated demonstrates her commitment to adult learners: " I am very excited to be chosen because it may help further the mission of getting more instructional opportunities for adult beginning readers."
Thanks to all of you who took the time to nominate individuals for this award. It is because of you that we are able to Make a Difference!
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