ONE Telluride Offers Flexible Language Learning Options for Hispanic Community

This is a flexible English learning program, matching volunteers with people who can't make it to classes at the schools. Some are even in the people's homes. - - Donna Poisl

Volunteers Work One-on-One With Students

by Martinique Davis

TELLURIDE – Every Saturday morning, ONE Telluride volunteer April Montgomery visits the home of an Hispanic family. For nearly two hours, they chat, laugh, and talk about what’s happening that week – in English.

The exchange is part of ONE Telluride’s adult English Language Learners (ELL), a program designed to help members of the local immigrant population gain vital language skills. Like ONE Telluride’s classroom-based language programs, the ELL volunteer program seeks to accomplish the non-profit organization’s mission of helping to bridge the gap between immigrants and receiving communities by offering numerous services that help with the integration process, including low-cost language instruction at all levels.

To help serve a growing population of students seeking language education, ONE Telluride, an initiative of the Telluride Foundation, is currently seeking volunteers to teach English in Telluride and Norwood. Volunteers will teach English in a one-on-one or small group setting – a new, flexible ELL teaching approach that supplements One Telluride’s existing classroom-based English courses. The volunteer program is a less traditional approach that takes ONE Telluride’s English language instruction outside of the classroom, bringing people like Montgomery into a less formal setting for one-on-one interaction.
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