Amelia Onorato

M.A., French; M.S., Teaching English as a Second Language

Lecturer & Coordinator of the CPCS Peer Advising and Tutoring Program

Office: W-3-154-26

Phone number: 617-287-7143

amelia.onorato@umb.edu

 

Amelia Onorato has been teaching for the past 20 years in settings ranging from Adult Basic Education and Refugee Resettlement, to university--level Intensive English Language Programs. She has been teaching writing and other subjects at CPCS for 10 years. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she coordinates the College's Peer Advising and Tutoring, or PAT Program. She has been gratified to help build this program into a source of significant academic support for CPCS students, and to see how the program has also succeeded in increasing student participation and leadership in the College. Another facet of her job that she particularly enjoys is working with students from the CIRCLE (Center for Immigrant and Refugee Community Leadership and Empowerment), WICD (Women Involved in Community Development) and ABE-College Transition cohorts. In 2005, Ms. Onorato was honored by the Massachusetts Coalition of Adult Educators as Adult Education Teacher of the Year.

 

 

In addition to teaching writing workshops, serving on the Writing Portfolio advising team, and coordinating the PAT Program, Ms. Onorato evaluates the following competencies:

• Dimensions of Learning
• Understanding Arguments
• Critical Inquiry
• Reading Life Histories (focus on immigrant life histories)
• Exploring Culture
• Making Arguments
• Public and Community Action II and III (focus on education)
• Critical Readings (focus on education)
• Training and Development competencies