I'm a basic skills tutor at homelessness charity St Mungo's Broadway.
Gena Haskett, 46, a computer skills tutor in Glendale, Calif., and a frequent Internet user, worries that a high-speed connection would make her computer more susceptible to viruses and attacks by hackers.
My study skills tutor now acknowledges that the way I work is linked to my character, so we have done lots of things on reducing stress, as well as reading and writing exercises".
Why? Simon Phillips, a basic skills tutor at St Mungo's Broadway, tells of reluctant hostel-dwelling readers who have been kickstarted into writing their own poems by discovering a poem that works for them: "John Hegley is good that way, and Invictus – the poem that kept up Nelson Mandela's spirits in prison.
Where are some places that one could volunteer one's time and skills (tutoring, college preparedness)? - Posted by John Mac It's a timely question.
For the past 18 months it has been sending basic skills tutors into the tank and infantry training regiments at Tidworth and the gunnery school at nearby Larkhill.
Others provide supplemental literacy skills tutoring for children in kindergarten to third grade.
These programs range from shelter, individual/family counseling, art therapy, drug/alcohol abuse education, life skills tutoring, job development assistance, internships, community outreach, to working with the Los Angeles Unified School District in forming the first high school serving youth experiencing homelessness.
The videoed interviews were rated by nine communication skills tutors with health care backgrounds.
Each group is facilitated by one or two experienced consultation skills tutors.
