The first thing I noticed about the materials used at Nashville Adult Literacy Council, were the arrangements of the learning materials or books. As noted in a previous blog post, I arrived very early to my first session to prepare. After I prepared I flipped through several of the books. They are all arranged in a scaffolding manner, where every book builds on itself. Then the series of books are tiered in a way to build on it even more. Just by looking at how these books are arranged and structured, I would guess that this would enhance learning to the fullest potential, instead of teaching somebody the language without as much structure. English is a complicated language with idioms, homonyms, and other things of this sort so to have a learning regimen that is so structured makes sense.
I have completed all of my tutoring hours at the Antioch location. It’s a small portion of space with a wall to divide the area down the middle. On one side there is a reception desk, two offices, a conference room, and a bathroom. On the other side if the tutoring area, along the back wall there are tables with chairs that face the wall. These workspaces for two or three people are divided by cloth covered plywood on wheels. There is one area sectioned off for a small group I would assume and another area at the opposite end of the room that consists of a round table, probably once again for small groups. There haven’t been very many people there when I tutor. There was a time or two when there was another one on one tutor at the other end of the room. It may have been a little distracting, but nothing that couldn’t be overcome fairly easily. NALC does well with the space they have there and makes learning as efficient as possible in my opinion.
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