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Song is a Korean E-learning specialist who is passionate about bringing quality education to all Korean students, regardless of family financial resources, through E-learning. She has this to say about what makes for a good Talk Time. “1. Sweet staff and volunteers who try to understand us. My boss showed me the tag line on an email from a major name in ESL education in Washington state: Better skills. Better jobs. Building a better Washington. The focus on ESL for job skills has been around for awhile, but it’s definitely gathering momentum in the funding world for non-profit literacy development agencies under the title Adult [...] In my early Talk Time days, I wrote very simple materials – a few sentences or paragraph about something that happened to me or someone I knew, followed by a handful of questions tied to a common word or theme. There were no instructions to either facilitator or participants. Since 2008, I’ve been writing topics with lots [...] A new volunteer joined me at Talk Time. We had never met before, only talked on the phone. Beforehand, I tried to describe what kind of ESL teaching she would be doing, “You’ll be facilitating student conversation, listening and asking questions.” I was a shade skeptical. I’ve known [...] |
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