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Volunteer Tutors
Adult Literacies Learning helps people to communicate clearly and to read, write and work with numbers with confidence.
If you have some spare time, enjoy being with people and can offer support and encouragement to learners, then working as a volunteer tutor is a rewarding and worthwhile opportunity.
What would you have to do?
The role of the volunteer tutor is to guide people through learning activities and to help them recognise and value their progress.
Volunteer tutors are trained by Learning for ALL staff to offer this support to learners. Volunteers always work in supervised situations.
If you are interested, please contact your local worker.
Working with Learners
Adults wishing to develop their literacies are assessed by a local Adult Education Worker (AEW) or Literacies Development Worker (LDW) and work in small groups or 1:1 sessions.
The worker and the learner work together to agree an individual learning plan (ILP), which covers the learner’s long term and short-term goals and an action plan outlining the learning required to reach these goals. This plan also supports the review process and helps people transfer their learning and move on.
The role of the volunteer tutor is to guide and support the learner through the plan and to help learners reflect on their learning and progress.
Volunteers may find themselves working to provide general support to a small group of learners or paired with a particular learner to provide individual support.
What support can volunteers expect?
· Initial guidance and training
· Supervision
· Ongoing support
· Further training
· Travel costs
Volunteers are asked to give a couple of hours a week of their time when there is a suitable opportunity available.
Adult Literacies Learning gives adults a chance to improve their skills and examine the way they use them, so that they can develop as learners and become more confident, able and critical in their roles as citizens, parents and employees.
Your help will make a difference.
Learning for ALL may sometimes work with people who are vulnerable members of our communities. It is our policy to select suitable volunteers through interview, carry out enhanced disclosure checks on all volunteers and to ask for two references.
Claire Stewart Literacies Co-ordinator Learning for ALL LINK TO EXTERNAL LEARNING SITE: Click here to be taken to BBC Skillswise
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