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Starting Your Own English Conversation Outreach Program

The lead teacher presents the lessons to the tutors, who then work with one or two students. The curriculum is dynamic, adapting to the specific language-learning needs of the students. Lesson plans are designed so that volunteer tutors can determine what activities fit the students at their table.
The keys to the success of this program model are 

• PAID manager of volunteers who is held accountable for coordinating schedules and keeping everyone informed,
• focusing on coaching the tutors so that they are engaged with the material and productive language partners beginning with their first session, and 
• daily evaluations from tutors and students that are carefully analyzed so that lesson content can be adjusted and groups can be reconfigured.

Read this for a success story of how ESL Outreach helped a church in Detroit to grow. 

For more information, contact Beth Cordes Thompson through ELPW’s contact page.

If you are inspired by ELPW’s program model and use some of the ideas you find on this website, please show your appreciation by “liking” ELPW’s Facebook page and drop us a note as a comment or at ELPW’s contact page. Let us know what you are doing.