Goodwill Adult Education - Would you like to help an adult learn to read from scratch?

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Goodwill of Southwestern PA is looking for individuals who enjoy helping others to make an impact in the adult learning community by helping an adult immigrant/refugee student learn basic literacy skills in English. In our program, we have a few students requesting services who have a good conversational ability in English, but are unable to read in English (and possibly have very low literacy in their first language).

This is clearly a big challenge, and we know that not everyone will be up for this task or feel equipped to help. Having a background in English as a Second or Other Language teaching could help but isn't required. Having a background as a K-12 reading instructor could certainly help, though not required. If you're interested, but do not have teaching experience, please still feel free to reach out. We would appreciate a six-month commitment of meeting the student 2x per week for 1.5 hours each meeting.

You'll go through a training that's partially online and there are in-person options for the training as well. After training, materials will be provided, and a trained teacher will work with you in the first weeks to go through materials and have some trial sessions with the student. You'll receive support throughout your time as a reading tutor. Familiarity with Zoom, including knowing how to share a document on screen and draw/use laser pointer is very helpful. We are willing to teach someone who needs to brush up on these Zoom skills, however :)

• One of the students needs to meet at 5pm or later. Online is ok. In person in the Crafton neighborhood is also welcomed for that student.
• The other student lives on the North Side and could meet in person or online. He has varying availability during the day and early evening.