tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27280791301234929642024-03-13T00:50:01.116-07:00Learn English at Home BlogA blog from volunteers and staff giving their personal experiences and thoughts on matters concerning Learn English at Home. Anyone thinking of becoming one of our volunteers will find the volunteer training articles essential reading as it gives a real insight into what the training involves.Learn English at Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248844909426825670noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728079130123492964.post-72786011398033731112017-11-13T05:48:00.001-08:002018-01-17T02:10:05.737-08:00Learn English at Home in Hounslow<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]-->This year has been an exciting one for LEAH, as we have started to work for the first time in the Borough of Hounslow. As I write,
six of our fantastic team of trained and experienced volunteers have been
paired with clients in Hounslow, and have embarked on a year-long journey of
weekly home visits to provide language support bespoke to their client. A huge
thank you to Anna, Julie, Jill, Lynn, Jeanette and Kim and several further volunteers waiting in
the wings to be paired in coming weeks. We are also hugely grateful to our
funding partners at the London Borough of Hounslow and the Rayne Foundation.<br />
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LEAH has been supporting ethnic minority adults with low
levels of English in Kingston since 1982, and we have been working for over 10
years in Richmond. It’s therefore a big moment for us as a small organisation
to be beginning work in a new Borough, but we are ready! We have an experienced
team of committed staff and trustees and strong systems in place for training
and supporting volunteers which mean we are prepared for the challenge. But
more than that, we know the work we do is really needed by vulnerable, isolated
people (all women to date) in Hounslow. </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“It’s exciting to be
LEAH’s first ever volunteer working in Hounslow. I can really see the need for
LEAH’s work in the borough”</i> Anna, LEAH volunteer. </div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">ESOL support bespoke to the starting point of the
learner and involving 1:1 buddying or mentoring, like that offered by LEAH, has
been identified as best practice in low-level language learning (DEMOS, 2014;
Greater London Authority, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘English for
All’</i>, 2012), yet there is noone offering this kind of support in many
London Boroughs including Hounslow. </span>Our partners in Community
Partnerships and Lifelong Learning at the London Borough of Hounslow confirm that
there are residents not able to access local education services, often the most
vulnerable. Hounslow has high levels of inward migration (30% of households do
not have English as a main language) and has 16 pockets amongst the 20% most deprived
in the country (using the Indices of Deprivation), compared to 1 such area in
Kingston and none in Richmond. </div>
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The picture that this data paints has very much been
confirmed by our experiences of working in Hounslow to date. In Kingston and
Richmond, we have developed and far-reaching referral networks, including GPs,
schools, midwives, health visitors and others. In Hounslow, we started by
developing relationships with health visitors alone, and in three months
received more referrals than we can support in our initial pilot of 20 clients.
What’s more, these clients are highly vulnerable, not only being isolated and
with low levels of English as all our clients are, but almost all facing
additional challenges including having been trafficked to this country, being
victims of domestic violence, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>having
children with special needs, or living in real poverty without access to public
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As Louise, LEAH’s Head of Programmes puts it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“At LEAH we are used to working with very
vulnerable clients, but we have really noticed a difference in Hounslow. This
has put pressure on the team at LEAH because for every client we’ve worked with
referrers and other partner agencies to ensure the client is hooked into the support
they need and that the setting is safe for our volunteer. It’s also been emotionally
hard work, seeing clients living with distressing situations. However, we are
all finding it hugely motivating as well. It’s always true that our clients
need our support, but this is even more so with the clients we are working with
in Hounslow”. </i></div>
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Anna agrees that she can really see the difference she makes
in working with her client: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“N was
trafficked to this country and lives in a hostel with her young children. She
often cancels at the last moment, and has a lot going on in her life, so
progress is slow. But she’s really keen to learn and I’m very glad to be
working with her, because she has no family support in the country”. </i></div>
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It’s just the start of LEAH’s important and challenging
journey in Hounslow, watch this space to hear more about our work in LEAH’s
third London Borough and what we learn from it. </div>
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Kate Brown, LEAH Director </div>
Learn English at Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248844909426825670noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728079130123492964.post-83319618158378178202016-12-06T05:55:00.000-08:002016-12-12T04:05:59.601-08:00Casey Review calls for more investment in English language learning<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">LEAH's work was given further endorsement yesterday by the Casey Review which states that 'English language is a common denominator and a strong enabler of integration'. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Freda with the Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Roy Arora, the Mayoress<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Freda steered LEAH from the early days of chairing meetings of volunteers in the North Kingston Centre
old kitchen to overseeing the employment of 6 staff in our own place today. In fact, both Freda and Jeanette hosted
meetings in their own homes for many years too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Freda was always fully engaged in our work – supporting her
own students and everything else that involved: including organising
recruitment and training of volunteers, dealing with student referrals; helping
run day trips for students and volunteers, and taking along spare clothes or
whatever else was needed for children, wrapping presents for the NY Party (how
time consuming that was, but always a good way of meeting up with the other
volunteers). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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thoughtful in her response to ideas and plans to further LEAH's aims.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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excellent at encouraging initiative.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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maxim “The best way to keep power is to share it, and the best way to influence
is to listen”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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getting the basics right.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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self-effacing (so much so that finding photographs of her has been difficult!).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway, Freda, I guess that using our talents and leaving a
legacy is something we all desire to do and there is no doubt you have
succeeded in doing this.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">LEAH is a better organisation because of your efforts, and a lovely
organisation to be involved in, either as an employee, student, volunteer or
trustee.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am delighted that you have agreed to stay on as a trustee
as your knowledge and advice will be invaluable at a time when we are facing many
challenges common to voluntary organisations dependent on charity funding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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pleasure to know you and work with you and I hope you will find your continuing
role as a trustee enjoyable and fulfilling.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The charity was founded by Joan Summersby, wife of a Methodist minister. She moved with her husband to Kingston from Bedford where there was an English language club. Finding that there was nothing similar in Kingston she decided to start her own. In the beginning it was very much tea and sewing for ladies from the Indian sub-continent but later developed into more of an ESOL organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1991, I went along to what was then called the Volunteer Bureau which put me in touch with LEAH and Kingston Hospital. They did a good job of matching me up as I’m still involved in both organisations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went on a short training course run by Jenny Arokiasamy at the North Kingston Centre. It was not nearly as comprehensive as the courses LEAH now runs but enough to give me a basic idea. I was then paired up with a young mother who was a refugee from the war in Iraq. Nowadays we have a team of co-ordinators to provide back up and advice but I was left very much to my own devices. I worked with her for about 4 years and she later went on to become a child minder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a year of volunteer tutoring I joined the LEAH committee and shortly afterwards took on the role of organising tutor. This involved taking referrals, visiting clients, meeting volunteers and matching them up. I went all over Kingston visiting clients. On one occasion I even interviewed a young man, who was ill, in his bedroom. Of course you didn’t think about your own safety, only now looking back on it do you realise that that probably wasn’t particularly safe. Fortunately we have safe guarding policies in place now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1997 was a milestone for LEAH because it received its first funding grant from Trust for London. This enabled us to take on our first paid co-ordinator and I became Chair of the organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The financing of the charity has always been unpredictable. RBK has been a great supporter with regular small grants, however it was when the Community Fund awarded us a 3 year grant of £184K in 2001 that we were able to really step up our work. However this funding ceased in 2007 and when other funding bids were unsuccessful we had to make 2 members of staff redundant. That was a real low point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ve also had to do some of the least popular jobs. I remember buying new clothes for a child that had been sick on the bus on our way to Littlehampton one summer!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ve made some good friendships with the other committee members particularly Jeanette Hall, Joan McConn and Isabelle Mcgrath who have all been with the charity for a long time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The client parties and trips are hectic (one new year we had over 120 people) but it is always good to see the students, volunteers and their families enjoying themselves and hugely satisfying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is very pleasing to see how far LEAH has come. The organisation is now run on a very professional footing and this can only continue with the calibre of the new trustees who have recently joined the board. However, with the ongoing influx of refugees from war zones around the world our work always continues to be needed. The 1 to 1 support that LEAH provides is unique and is so important in helping people who have English as a second language make the first steps towards improving their language skills.</span>Learn English at Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248844909426825670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728079130123492964.post-90120471915927994942015-07-08T02:08:00.001-07:002016-10-13T04:09:49.636-07:00<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Training Week 10</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are back in the classroom today, teaching a group of Entry 1 learners. This is the second to last teaching practice week with the key objective of our students being able to prepare a short piece of work about their own journeys from their homelands to Kingston. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We start off with some map work. We show our students iconic pictures of several capital cities, the countries and continents they are in and their orientation (north, south, east, west). Then we gave an example of the journey of Cesar Picton had from Senegal to Kingston in the 18th Century, teaching some key vocabulary relating to this, which would help our students when they were describing their own experiences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our students then had the opportunity to practice the new vocabulary in pairs. We all learned a lot about where each person had come from, why they came to Kingston and what they enjoy about living here. There was lots of participation from our learners who seemed to really enjoy this session, and they even gave our volunteer tutors a round of applause at the end of it!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week we have arranged to meet our students and tutors at Kingston Museum. The group splits into two, half going off on a local history tour of Kingston town centre, while the other half stayed for a guided tour of the Museum. I stayed with the group which toured the Museum and found our guide extremely well informed, using lots of props to help explain the exhibits to our students. There really is something for everyone at the Museum, with exhibits ranging from Bronze and Iron Age artefacts, to the Anglo-Saxon Kings who were crowned in Kingston, and showing how Kingston has changed through more modern decades. Our students were asked to pick their favourite exhibit and write a few sentences, with our help, about what it was and why they liked it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we reconvened after lunch for our theory lesson, the focus this week was on the use of authentic materials in teaching. Authentic materials are those not specifically prepared for teaching purposes, for example, information leaflets, forms, newspapers and recipe books. We were split into small groups, each given different authentic materials and we were asked to consider the challenges posed by the language and layouts used. We then were tasked to come up with solutions to overcome these challenges within the context of a plan for a reading lesson. I found this to be a really useful lesson and one which is likely to be well used by us with our students in the future. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week we have been asked to progress our more advanced students to a point where they feel able to write a story about their personal journey to the UK. This presented its own challenges to our teaching group. We were paired up and asked to cover several topics, including a lesson designed to teach vocabulary relating to comparison and emotion; a grammar lesson teaching quantifiers, comparatives and superlatives e.g. many, more, most; and then our bit, how to bring all this and the information from previous lessons together to create a story. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In our feedback session, our tutor Veronica observed that we had all demonstrated good progress in our teaching practice over a short period of time. My feeling is that our confidence has increased with every lesson and that a combination of preparation and learning from this time in front of students is indispensable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After lunch, once our students had left, we reconvened in the classroom with our tutor Emma who continued last week's theme of literary skills. This week the main focus moved from reading skills to writing skills. It is important for us to understand this as we are likely to come across students with varied levels of ability and we need to understand how to best develop our lesson plans for each individual.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728079130123492964.post-58765109456735682722015-06-08T07:37:00.002-07:002016-10-13T04:13:39.897-07:00<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Training Week 6</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today we are back in the classroom. Last week our tour of Kingston included a stop at Cesar Picton's House and today we have been asked to deliver a lesson, suitable for our group of more advanced students, relating to his journey from Senegal to Kingston in 1761 and his subsequent life in England. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The afternoon session kicked off with a most interesting challenge to translate a sheet of symbols into English. This was designed to demonstrate to us the many, often subconscious, skills we deploy when reading. Fascinating stuff!</span></div>
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to be out and about in the glorious spring sunshine. It was led very knowledgeably
by our tutor / tour guide who took us on a whistle-stop tour of Kingston
Market, All Saints Church, Kingston Bridge, the new waterfront development at
Charter Quay, Clattering Bridge and past Caesar Picton’s House to the
Coronation Stone outside the Guildhall. It was genuinely very interesting, our
students were fully engaged and asking lots of questions and I learned a lot
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developing coherent lesson plans to teach grammar. We recapped on some of the
techniques that had been introduced throughout the course and pulled them
altogether to form a solid structure on which we would be able to base our
future lessons. Today felt like a milestone, as so many strains of what we had
been taught started to bind themselves together and somehow appear to be more
digestable. This is a relief, as we are now exactly half way through the LEAH
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students. We were told about the history of Kingston, by looking at objects
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728079130123492964.post-54163877400619009962015-05-24T09:38:00.001-07:002016-10-13T04:26:19.877-07:00Training week 4<h3>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Today
is our second teaching practice day – and my first experience of teaching. Our
groups are the same as last week and we are teaching beginner level students on
a one to one basis. Today’s topics are to teach directions and facts about
Kingston Museum. I have been asked to focus on Kingston Museum in my 20 minute lesson.</span></span></h3>
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opening hours and what objects might you find in it. Then I had to think about
how I could use creative audio and visual techniques to teach these points to a
student who is new to English. After an hour or so at my computer, I had
created a short role-play exercise and a couple of visual word games, which I
thought would be helpful. I was pleased when the lesson ran smoothly, my
student seemed to follow the lesson well and she was keen to visit the Museum
herself the following week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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reconvened for a theory lesson with our tutor. Today’s subject is English
Grammar and how we can structure a lesson to teach it well. This is an
important skill and one that I will have to brush up on before sharing the
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first week of teaching practice is already upon us. There is a frisson of
anticipation in the room as the three groups set up their lessons for the
students who are beginning to arrive, some with young children (cared for in an
on-site crèche), many from South Korea. The students are quickly organized by
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of different, newly learned techniques were in evidence as thirty or so
students were taught how to introduce themselves and then about the many
attractions of Kingston Upon Thames. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a couple of hours teaching, the
students left and we had a helpful feedback session with one of the ESOL tutors
who had been observing us. They also briefed us on the subjects for next week’s
lesson and gave some pointers on how to best prepare for it. </span></span><br />
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reconvened after a short lunch for a theory lesson. Today’s topic was how to
prepare for a spoken English lesson. We considered a range of issues students
might face when speaking English, ranging from lack of confidence, to confusion
over the order of words, to unfamiliarity with sounds. This was demonstrated as
we had a practice lesson based on visiting a doctor’s surgery. </span></div>
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Learn English at Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248844909426825670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728079130123492964.post-57508215283323266692015-05-07T13:22:00.002-07:002016-10-13T04:20:05.839-07:00Training week 2<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are greeted once more by our tutor, Emma. As she writes up the plan for the morning, it is clear that we are going to have another pacy, stimulating day. We start with English vocabulary, its complexities and quirks and soon realize that it is not only difficult for a beginner to learn English, in many aspects it can prove tricky for those of us who speak it as a first language as well!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We moved on to learn how to use different techniques to help teach the meaning of vocabulary, such as pictures, objects, mime and examples. It becomes clear that we must think hard about how we elicit answers from our students. Then we considered how language is different depending on whether you are reading it or listening to it and for example, the importance of punctuation or intonation in defining meaning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the afternoon, we prepared our first lesson plan. Examples were given, reading a letter sent from the hospital and calling the emergency services, and then we were split into 3 groups and asked to work together to plan our first lesson. The subject is introducing yourself and the local neighbourhood and we will be teaching this lesson to real students next week. By the time we left at 2.30pm, we had a good idea of how the lesson would be structured and what teaching materials would be at our disposal, but further work would have to be done at home to complete it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Being allocated groups we were told to get in to pairs and prepare lessons for entry 1 students. These students didn't know much English and so it was a challenge for us to teach them some useful words and sentences. We taught them about directions and how to read maps of Kingston. It was a very challenging yet valuable experience. I think it made me more confident to speak up in front of people that I don't know; and these skills are really good especially if you want to go in to long term teaching like me. The students that we were teaching were very friendly too and so our experience of teaching a group of 8 people was not as scary as we first thought it would be. </span></span>Learn English at Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248844909426825670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728079130123492964.post-66048657406211153752015-05-07T13:19:00.004-07:002016-10-13T04:20:41.334-07:00Training week 1<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following week the group meets in central Kingston at 9.30am for our first day of tutor training. Our tutor Emma, greets us and quickly proceeds to give us a Greek lesson, not using one word of English throughout. This was a very revealing process, which put us in a similar situation to our future students and I was delighted to have learned lots of different teaching methods as well as being able to order several items of food and drink in a Greek café by the end of it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a short lunch, we reconvened for some theory. The objectives were to be able to understand different learning styles and to assess levels of speaking, listening and literacy. This would enable us to plan lessons that would meet the specific needs of our students. By the time we wrap up at 2.30pm and I realize how quickly the time has gone and how much more I know now than when I walked into the building 5 hours ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">On
the first day of the training course, we were given a icebreaker task to get to
know all of the other students. After that we were taught a foreign language
which helped us to understand how those who cannot speak English would feel. It
was a very enjoyable experience. We also learnt about different learning
styles, which would help us in our upcoming training sessions. A variety of
tasks were also given to us; working individually and in teams; helped us to
develop our interpersonal skills as well as our knowledge for teaching clients.
It was a truly valuable experience in a warm and welcoming environment
and I would recommend this course to anyone who is particularly interested in
teaching or using their spare time to help others. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Learn English at Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248844909426825670noreply@blogger.com1Kingston upon Thames, Kingston upon Thames, Greater London KT2 6LX, UK51.4129911 -0.298597100000051851.4117531 -0.30111860000005181 51.4142291 -0.29607560000005179tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728079130123492964.post-31281711018268377862015-05-07T13:17:00.001-07:002016-01-07T06:59:25.790-08:00Training to be a volunteer tutor - Introduction<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I applied to become a volunteer tutor with LEAH (Learn English at Home) via the UK’s national volunteering database, Do-it.org. I called the LEAH office to find out a bit more and thought this would be a great opportunity which fitted my skills and interests. So, after completing a simple application form and attending a successful interview, here I am at the new volunteers introductory session nervously waiting to hear what the next ten weeks have in store.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The LEAH coordinators have recruited around twenty or so new volunteer tutors, men and women of all ages and from all walks of life. I am impressed by the diversity of people in the room and think that we will learn a lot from each other as well as from the LEAH coordinators and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) tutors who carry out the formal training. After a quick, straightforward ice-breaker, we receive information relating to LEAH and the course. A quick flick through shows that this is likely to be a focused, well supported course.</span><br />
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