This week we’d like to share with you all a great resource from Literacy Mid-South, an organization based out of Memphis, Tennessee. They’ll be training instructors in Memphis to use English Forward and we’re happy to be working with them.
As with many volunteer-based organizations, they often have a difficult time coordinating and scheduling Professional Development sessions since they work with a large number of volunteers with a variety of schedules. However, they also understand the value of supporting their volunteers and providing professional development. They’ve come up with a unique, 21st century solution to this problem!
Literacy Mid-South has created their own YouTube channel (click here) and they use it to provide tips and tricks for their volunteers! Here’s a great video on Vocabulary Tours, and here’s another on how to associate Words to Pictures. They’ve got a lot of great information on this channel!
Take a look around their channel, you may find something useful! You may notice that they have tips guided towards ABE and ESL instructors, they teach both!
How does your organization support their instructors? What other professional development opportunities, videos, etc. have you found online? Let us know in the comments below!