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> Checking out BALC materials from the library
> Would you consider helping new tutors by being a ‘shadow trainer’?
> Forms you might need
> Books available in the BALC library collection
Checking out BALC materials from the library
The Baraboo Area Literacy Council (BALC) collection of books, tapes and other resources for tutors and students is linked into the computerized Public Library system.
To check out your BALC materials, please take them to the Baraboo Library's front desk and tell them you are a literacy tutor. That will allow the library staff to check the items out for the 4 month period. The collection is not available to other patrons, nor to other libraries.
Items such as workbooks, which will be used and written in, should be bought by the student. Materials for sale are available on the bottom shelf of the BALC stacks. To purchase these items take what you need, leave the payment, with the name of the book(s), in an envelope clearly labeled PURCHASES and put it in the white BALC box. If you have questions, please contact: Nijole 356.6549 Email: netz@g2a.net
Would you consider helping new tutors by being a ‘shadow trainer’?
Would you and your student be interested in helping new tutors through “shadow training”? Shadow training is an opportunity for someone interested in becoming a tutor to observe an active tutor and student working together at one of their regular lessons. Shadow training is not a critique of the tutor or student - a point that cannot be emphasized enough.
Shadow training is the first step in our tutor training process. It gives potential tutors a better understanding of what tutoring is all about. It would also alleviate some of the anxiety that new tutors often have prior to taking their first student. Through shadow training, prospective tutors might learn that tutoring is different in some way than they expected, or find out that tutoring isn’t for them, prior to investing time in training. Perhaps helping the literacy effort in another manner is more suited to their skills.
Can you help? If so you will need to speak with your student and get his/her permission to have a lesson observed. The BALC will take the responsibility of briefing the potential tutors in regard to issues of confidentiality. If you and your student are interested in participating, or you have questions about this, please contact us at boolit@barabooliteracy.org.
Forms
you might need
Tutor
Request
Student
Information
Student Tutor Contract,
English
Student Tutor Contract
bilingual
Tutor Evaluation, English
Tutor Evaluation, Bilingual
Termination
Report
These forms may be downloaded, printed, filled in and then taken to or mailed to the library. If you would like to have electronic versions of the forms, please email your request to boolit@barabooliteracy.org. Then you could fill it in and send it in an email, saving paper and time.
Books
available in the BALC library collection
You may
get a copy of the Literacy Materials as of January, 2006 by
clicking here. LitCouncilMat@Lib
These additional materials were purchased in late 2007:
-
101 American Customs
- All About the USA: A Cultural Reader
- The ESL Miscellany: a treasury of cultural and linguistic
information
- A First Look at the USA
- Holidays Around the Year
- Introducing the USA: A Cultural Reader
- Longman Basic Dictionary of American English
- Longman Photo Dictionary of American English W/ Audio CD
- Longman Photo Dictionary of American English
(Spanish, Korean &Vietnamese glossary (w/ Audio CDs
(2)
- More About the
USA
- New Timesavers for English Teachers
- Sounds Easy! Phonics, Spelling, and
Pronunciation