VESL Network
Welcome to the Volunteer ESL Tutor Training Project, referred to as VESL.
Since 2005, VESL has supported the professional development of volunteer ELL tutors throughout the city of Calgary. The project is supported by Calgary Learns with funding support provided by Alberta Advanced Education. VESL is the collaborative effort of three Calgary ELL service providers with long standing volunteer programs: Bow Valley College, the Calgary Public Library, and the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society.
The project offers six face-to-face training workshops throughout the year that are offered free-of-charge to volunteers who support language learners in organizations throughout Calgary.
The training VESL provides has been integral in offering added support to numerous volunteer programs and in building a community of volunteers who support one another through the sharing of ideas, insights, and knowledge. The result has been a project that has increased volunteers’ abilities to better address the needs of the learners they support.
In 2015, VESL was the proud recipient of the Calgary Learns Life of Learning Award (LOLA) in the category of Learning Communities.