Immigrants learn math from immigrant tutor

This immigrant to the US is teaching math to other immigrants so they can get their GED and get better jobs. - - Donna Poisl

By Judy Masterson

ROUND LAKE PARK — An immigrant and a teacher of immigrants, Paul Shiels of Mundelein, like generations of volunteers before him, offers testimony to the claim that in giving, there is also receiving.

Shiels, a retired electrical engineer and native of Belfast in Northern Ireland, began volunteering at Mano a Mano Family Resource Center in Round Lake Park in 2002, after learning that more than 200 people were on a waiting list for the agency’s GED classes. He saw an opportunity to put the “poquito” of Spanish he picked-up as an exchange student in Spain — he holds a degree from Queens University, Belfast — to use.

He not only used his Spanish, he became fluent in the language.
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