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Impacting
Community
Educate.
Inspire.
Change.
Important Information for new volunteers within Central Piedmont Community
College’s Community Development Programs.
New Volunteer
Orientation
Table of Contents
Minutes
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Ice Breaker
 Hello and Welcome!
About Community Development
 5 W’s
 How would you define a tutor?
 Our Students
The Benefits of Tutoring
 What do you think the benefit of tutoring
is?
Volunteer Responsibilities
 Learn what your responsibilities are as a
volunteer
Volunteer Opportunities
 Learn about each volunteer opportunity
 Learn how to sign-up for an opportunity
Required Paperwork
 Agreement
 Background Check
Volunteer Process
 Your first visit
Web Page
 Learn where to receive additional resources
Orientation Survey
Questions
Notes
Contact Information
Molly Bonnett
Volunteer Facilitator/Crossroads Charlotte
704-258-6493 (Mobile)
704-330-4814 (Voice Mail)
http://www.cpcc.edu/literacy
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About Community Development: The 5 W’s
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Who We Are
 Community Development Goal: Enable adults to learn the basic skills necessary for
them to feel viable in the workforce and the community.
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What We Do
 Educate
 Inspire
 Change
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Why It Matters
 In the US:
o Seven million adults, or about 3% of the adult population, could not complete
even the most basic literacy tasks.
o Nearly 1 in 5 adults in the nonliterate in English group had a high school diploma
or GED. Among them, more than half (representing roughly 600,000 adults) had
earned their high school degree in the US.
 In North Carolina:
o In North Carolina more than one million residents cannot read well enough to
hold a job.
o In Mecklenburg County, 20% of all adults are considered functionally illiterate.
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How You Can Help
 How would you define a tutor?
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 Tutoring helps to provide one-on-one attention necessary to help students achieve their
goals
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Where We Can Go
 The sky is the limit!
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The Benefits of Tutoring
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Volunteer Responsibilities
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Provide encouragement and support by:
 Acknowledging learners accomplishments
 Helping the learner become an independent learner.
 Respect cultural differences.
 Be understanding
 Be supportive when addressing learner’s mistakes. Avoid
criticism.
 Provide positive feedback.
Volunteer Opportunities
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ABE: Designed to help those students that lack the basic educational skills. The courses focus
on adults functioning below a 9th grade level in reading, writing and math.
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GED: Designed to help those students that lack the basic educational skills. The courses focus
on adults functioning below a 9th grade level in reading, writing and math, social studies, and
science.
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ABLE: Adult Basic Literacy Education
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ESL: Provides instruction for adult English language learners to develop their English language
literacy, life and work skills in order to achieve greater self-sufficiency and participation in
American community life.
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Volunteer Process
1. Complete our volunteer registration at:
http://www.cpcc.edu/literacy/volunteer/volunteer-registration
2. Search our volunteer opportunities at:
http://www.cpcc.edu/literacy/volunteer/volunteeropportunities
a. If you need help selecting an opportunity to attend please contact Molly Bonnett
3. Sign up to attend an opportunity at:
http://www.cpcc.edu/literacy/volunteer/signup
a. You will receive a confirmation email with directions within 2 business days
At Your First Visit
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ABLE
1. Introduce yourself to the instructor on duty.
2. Sign in. At the Dowd YMCA and Harris Campus there is a sign in sheet as well as tutor
service cards.
3. The lab instructor will assign you a student or students (if preferred) to work with.
 Please inform the instructor if you have a reading or math tutor preference.
 The instructor will inform you of the proficiency level of the student.
 The labs will have all necessary materials.
4. Sign out. Please include the student you worked with as well as the assignment you
worked with that student on.
 Please provide details for the assignment. For example, if you worked on math
with a student please include what type of math. Did you help with algebra?
Geometry? Fractions? Addition? Subtraction? Etc.
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ESL
1. Introduce yourself to the instructor.
2. Sign in. Every instructor will have a
sign in sheet.
3. The instructor will assign you a
student or students to work with.
4. The instructor will inform you of the
proficiency level of the student.
5. The class will have all necessary
materials.
6. Sign out before you leave.
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Important Volunteer Webpage’s
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Home Page: http://www.cpcc.edu/literacy
Registration: http://www.cpcc.edu/literacy/volunteer/volunteer-registration
Opportunities: http://www.cpcc.edu/literacy/volunteer/volunteeropportunities
Sign Up: http://www.cpcc.edu/literacy/volunteer/signup
Training: http://www.cpcc.edu/literacy/volunteer/training
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