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A caring heart
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Patience
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The desire to “Change a Life…One Woman at a Time”
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The commitment to work with your student one hour, twice a week
IRWP will provide all materials, lesson plans, training, a Curriculum Coordinator and Liaison Teachers who provide additional support.
Call 314-771-1104 for more information or to schedule an orientation.
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Our teachers serve women who cannot attend formal English language classes due to caring of small children, work, transportation, or physical/psychological trauma. This year 50 volunteer teachers supported the program and provided more than 1,600 hours of service to over 60 women.
Teachers are not required to have prior teaching experience. They receive training before starting their work with students and ongoing training after they become teachers. IRWP provides teachers with lesson plans; books; workbooks; evaluation tools; and continuing support from liaison teachers, the curriculum coordinator, and the executive director. In two one-hour sessions a week, teachers provide one-on-one instruction that includes speaking, reading, and writing English. Teachers also help their students with real-life situations such as making medical appointments and using public transportation, and they seek opportunities to take them on “field trips” to stores and other places to practice their new skills. Student field trips this year included the Missouri Botanical Garden, Soulard Market, St. Louis Science Center, and Eckert’s Apple Orchard.
- Learn about cultures first hand
- Enrich your life
- Build a special relationship
- Empower another woman and her children
- Enjoy teaching
- Builds self-confidence
- Relieves women’s isolation in a new culture
- Enhances ability to communicate with their doctor, children’s teachers, business personnel
- Strengthens communication skills for their work place and positions them to be a valued employee
- Prepares them for citizenship
- Limits financial exploitation
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Teachers also help their students with real-life situations such as making medical appointments and using public transportation, and they seek opportunities to take them on “field trips” to stores and other places to practice their new skills. Student field trips this year included the Missouri Botanical Garden, Soulard Market, St. Louis Science Center, and Eckert’s Apple Orchard.
Benefits To Immigrants And Refugees
