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Tutor Trainings Start Jan. 15 at Napa County Library
The need for volunteer tutors is growing in Napa County.
Napa County Library's Literacy Center is offering a free, three-part tutor training starting in mid-January.
The trainings will be Jan. 15 from 6:30 to 8 p.m.; Jan. 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Jan. 23 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Napa County Main Library at 580 Coombs St. in Napa.
An additional tutor training will be offered at American Canyon on Feb. 8 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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The course covers techniques for teaching adults to read and write. Also, it includes specific strategies for helping learners reach their personal goals, such as: reading to their children; passing the GED; completing job applications and understanding the notes that come home from school and the doctor’s office.
The Literacy Center has been offering tutoring since 1984. It is a second chance to adults who fell through the cracks and never gained the reading and writing skills necessary to live fully empowered lives.
The center also provides English as a Second Language instruction for adults who seek to improve their English skills. The program’s tutors are volunteers, many of whom have discovered that they learn as much as they teach when they become tutors.
“Tutoring changed a life...mine,” said Georgia Yssesltein, a volunteer in library literacy programs for many years. “I meet people I would have never met otherwise, and am learning so much about the whole learning process. I love to be part of those light bulb moments!”
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For additional information, please call Robin Rafael at the Napa County Library’s Literacy Center at 707-253-4283.
According to Rafael, there is a waiting list of learners right now that need help with reading, writing, or learning to speak English.
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