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Overview

As a new tutor it is important to remember that the student is the focus of your session and her/his specific academic support needs are the reason for your work together. That means that the student should determine the goals for the session; the specific content to work on; how much time to spend on each problem or question (within the framework of the overall time allotted to your tutoring session) and if additional appointments are necessary. In other words, it "isn't about you!"

However, you obviously play a large role in the success of the tutoring session. Your primary roles are to guide the student through the problem or concepts; to help the tutee gain confidence; and to help the tutee learn effective study techniques so that s/he can become a more independent learner.

Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Define the role of the tutor and the tutee in a tutoring session and differentiate between the two
• Construct a mock introduction to a first meeting with a tutee
• Discuss what takes place before, during and after a tutoring session
• Explain verbally and in writing the recommended structure for a one hour tutoring session

Presenter Information

Roberta Schotka is the Director of Programs at Wellesley College's Pforzheimer Learning & Teaching Center. She holds an Ed.M in Instructional Media & Technology, a B.S. in Elementary Education, and has completed the HERS Institute for Women in Higher Education management training program. Roberta is a member of the Learning Assistance Association of New England (LAANE), the New England Peer Tutor Association (NEPTA) and the College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA), where she is has just been elected president of the CRLA Northeast Chapter. In addition she is the site chair for the 2013 CRLA national conference in Boston.

For the past eight years Roberta has also served as assistant coordinator and program reviewer for CRLA's International Tutor Training Program Certification (ITTPC) and coordinator of the annual Outstanding Tutor Award. Roberta has been on the NEPTA Steering Committee for the past twelve years and was coordinator for two NEPTA conferences. She also served as national co-chair for the 2008 NADE conference.

Roberta has presented at numerous regional and national conferences. She has directed tutorial and academic support programs at a small, urban community college, a large private research university and currently at a small, private, liberal arts college for women. She has extensive experience in the field of tutoring, tutor training, academic support services and student retention initiatives and has developed and taught first year experience courses at both the university and community college level.

Overview

Although most students come to tutoring sessions to get answers to specific questions or to get solutions to homework problems, what they really need is help with developing the critical thinking skills that would allow them to answer their own questions and/or to develop their own problem solving strategies. This session will provide a definition of critical thinking, and will show tutors how to teach their students specific learning strategies that lead to better critical thinking skills.

Objectives

After completing this session the tutors will be able to:

• Explain the differences between what most students want from a tutoring session and what students need from a tutoring session
• Define critical thinking and identify the thinking skills that tutors can teach students
• Demonstrate strategies for teaching students to think critically
• Discuss the role of metacognition, Bloom's taxonomy and the study cycle in helping students develop critical thinking skills
• Model metacognitive thinking for their tutees

Presenter Information

Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire is the Director Emerita of the Center for Academic Success and retired Assistant Vice Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University. She is an internationally recognized chemical educator, author and lecturer who has traveled the globe promoting sure-fire strategies to help students, including those underrepresented in science and math professions, to be successful in their coursework and careers. She has delivered keynote addresses or presented workshops at over 400 institutions in 47 states and 11 countries. Prior to joining LSU, she spent eleven years at Cornell University, where she received the coveted Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. Her best-selling book, Teach Students How to Learn, was published by Stylus in 2015. The student version of this book, Teach Yourself How to Learn, was released in January 2018.

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Overview

There are some unique qualities of a writing tutoring, making it different from tutoring subject areas like math or French. Writing tutors must be able to assist students at a variety of stages of the writing process, from brainstorming through polishing, and must be able to provide support on areas such as citing sources and using grammar correctly, writing thesis statements, and organizing ideas. This TutorLingo training will give tutors the tools for effectively helping students improve their writing. While there are some unique aspects to tutoring writing, this training will also cover best practices that can be generalized to all tutoring as well, such as actively engaging students in their sessions and encouraging students to be active learners.

Objectives

After completing this session the tutors will be able to:

• Identify the key elements of a writing tutorial
• Apply strategies to help tutees at varying levels of preparation and ability
• Examine and prioritize tutees' writing concerns for their tutoring session
• Discover ways to handle tutees' grammar concerns
• Acquire an understanding of plagiarism and demonstrate ways of handling plagiarism in tutees' writing

Presenter Information

Stephanie Carter holds a BA in psychology from the University of New Hampshire, and an MA in English from the University of Rhode Island. She has 14 years of experience working in writing centers and teaching writing to college students. Stephanie has presented at writing center and learning assistance conferences, and is vice chair of the Northeast Writing Centers Association. She currently supervises a staff of both peer and professional writing tutors at Bryant University's Writing Center.

Description

Understanding how the brain learns helps tutors implement effective tutoring strategies. This session will cover four main topics to build tutors' knowledge of learning theory. First, tutors will learn about schema, and how working in Vygotsky's zone of proximal development encourages development of schema. Second, Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives will be described, and tutors will reflect on their own questions. Third, the importance of positive reinforcement will be shared, along with strategies for using it effectively. The presentation will end with a discussion of Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences.

Objectives

At the end of this video, tutors will be able to:

• Define schema
• Identify types of questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
• Improve their use of positive reinforcement
• Reflect on their preferred intelligence according to Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Presenter Information

Dr. Marcia Toms has been active in the tutoring field since 1995 when she became a peer tutor. Over the years she has assisted students in math, physics and writing in the classroom, Supplemental Instruction sessions, drop-in and appointment-based tutoring. Marcia has a B.A. in English with Teaching Certification, a M.A. in English Literature and a Ph.D. in Educational Research and Policy Analysis. Her research interests include tutor-training, assessment of tutoring programs, and qualitative and quantitative research.

Description

This TutorLingo interactive video will help new tutors differentiate among different types of helping relationships and to distinguish appropriate boundaries in their role as a peer tutor as they engage in a helping relationship with tutees. Tutors will be asked to reflect on their attraction to and motivation for pursuing the role of peer tutor. This interactive video will cover concepts such as the role of the peer tutor, the tutoring cycle, and making informed referrals. External and internal roadblocks that act as barriers to effective learning will be briefly explored.

Objectives

After completing this session the tutors will be able to:

• Define Helping Relationships
• Understand the Tutor's Role As A Helper
• Conceptualize Helping As An Educational Process
• Reflect On Tutor Motivations for Helping
• Examine The Role of The Tutor In Relationship To The Complexities of a Tutoring Session
• Tutees' Roadblocks To Learning
• The Tutoring Cycle
• "Curriculum" In The Session
• Making Appropriate Referrals

Presenter Information

Laurie L. Hazard holds an Ed.M. in Counseling and an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Teaching from Boston University. Laurie's experience with academic support began as a graduate student at Boston University and later as a reading and writing specialist in an innovative, team structured learning assistance program at Boston University. For two years, Laurie served as the Director of Academic Support Services at Becker College, a department which housed advising services for at-risk students, learning assistance programs, and tutoring services. Laurie has been the Director of the Academic Center for Excellence and Writing Center at Bryant University for the last fifteen years. Laurie has been teaching and designing curricula for first-year experience and study skills courses for the over twenty years. She has taught courses in college reading and study skills, liberal arts seminars, psychology, personality psychology, abnormal psychology, and social psychology. Her area of expertise is the personality traits and attitudes of college students that influence academic achievement and mediate the utilization of newly learned study strategies.

Laurie has been a New England Peer Tutor Association Board member and has hosted their Annual Forum at her institution. She has presented at national conferences such as the First Year Experience and Students in Transition, the Conference on College Composition and the College Reading and Learning Association.

Laurie co-authored a text entitled Foundations for Learning designed for study skills and first-year experience courses. Laurie has done extensive work writing about and assessing the effectiveness of learning assistance programs and FYE courses. She has been a Guest Editorial Board member for the Learning Assistance Review. Publications by Laurie and her co-author include: Exploring the Evidence, Volume III: Reporting Outcomes of First-Year Seminars, a monograph published by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition and "What Does It Mean to be 'College-Ready'?", an article which appears in Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education.

Laurie, an award winning educator, was selected by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition as a top ten Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate. In 2006, she received the Learning Assistance Association of New England's Outstanding Research and Publication Award. In 2010, the Learning Assistance Association of New England recognized her with their "Outstanding Service to Developmental Students" award. Most recently, in 2013, Laurie received the College Reading and Learning Association's Special Recognition Award at the inaugural meeting of the Northeast Chapter.

Description

Tutors take on many different roles when engaging in a tutoring session or being part of a tutoring center. Tutors often believe that their sole role is to work with students on course material; however, the roles of a tutor include one-on-one facilitation, small group facilitation, mentoring as well as someone who reinforces study strategies, promotes independent learning and models positive, constructive academic behavior. As important as all these roles are, there are other roles that tutors should not take on. This training module addresses these issues and more. After participating in this video, tutors will have a clearer understanding of their role(s) and the limits of their role(s).

Objectives

After completing this session the tutors will be able to:

• Differentiate between teachers and tutors
• Define what a tutor is
• Define the Do's and Don'ts of Tutoring
• Discover the limits of a tutor's role
• Learn questioning techniques as a facilitator of learning
• Acquire knowledge which will lead to a clear understanding of the various roles a tutor
• Understand the relationship between the tutor and the faculty

Presenter Information

Allen A. Bruehl has been working in higher education since 1985 as an English professor or academic administrator coordinating tutoring centers, academic advising and disability services. He has been at Assumption College since 1992 where he designed the Academic Support Center and have taken it from a 15 peer tutor center to a 50 peer tutor center. The Academic Support Center has been CRLA certified since 1994 at all 3 levels of certification. Alan is also the co-founder of the New England Peer Tutor Association.

At Assumption, he chaired the Writing Emphasis Committee from 1992-2001 and continues to be an active member of the committee. He also serves on the advisory board for the Center for Teaching Excellence and continues to teach English courses through the Division of Continuing Education.

Alan has also worked as an outside program evaluator for Bradford College, Emmanuel College, Emerson College, and Curry College, and has done numerous conference presentations on tutoring, writing and learning center administration.

Description

In this video, Steve shares his insights with tutors on how to be effective teachers because effective tutors are, in fact, effective teachers. Effective tutors build relationships, identify challenges, break down steps and strategies, build skills and reinforce progress with practice. Once connecting on these levels, the tutors can begin their journey to help the tutee progress in simple, specific, slow, and steady steps. Steve will demonstrate how specific interventions/strategies can multiple their effectiveness across study skills by scaffolding. Though addressing three separate yet typical challenge areas (note-taking, reading, and testing), he helps the tutor connect each area by identifying warning signs and red flags and then applying simple interventions. The tutors are given opportunities to master the interventions themselves with strategically-placed "Time to Reflect" exercises to practice the skills. This further drives home the point that effective tutors have to be effective teachers and effective teachers model the behaviors they want their students to adopt.

Objectives:

By the end of this video, students will be able to:

• Identify typical warning signs and red-flag behaviors common with note-taking, reading and testing challenges.
• Apply a basic study strategy (TSD) that, once learned, will help tutees in all three identified areas.
• Understand that testing as a skill consists of preparation and performance with distinct warning signs, red flags, and interventions for each.
• Use the identified video strategies to assess their own note-taking, reading, and testing skills levels.

Presenter Information:

Steve Piscitelli has dedicated his career (as a teacher, author, and facilitator) to teaching and learning. He understands, applies, and builds upon basic principles of student/life success. He helps students, faculty, and staff visualize their dreams and prioritize their resources on the way to a life of well-being and balance.

In this video, Steve shares his insights with tutors on how to be effective teachers because effective tutors are, in fact, effective teachers. Steve has distilled his teaching strategies to a few basic strategies that tutors can apply immediately.

Steve has authored Study Skills: Do I Really Need This Stuff? (3rd ed.) and Choices for College Success (2nd ed.). The third edition of Choices is due to be released in January 2014. Steve, also, has written, recorded, and produced two music CDs. He maintains a YouTube Channel and posts a weekly blog on life success issues and strategies. His nationally-known workshops combine interaction, practicality, music, video, and humor to connect participants with practical strategies. Steve is a tenured professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville and is in his 32nd year as a classroom instructor.

Description

Students who come to tutoring reflect the considerable diversity in today's colleges and universities. Effective tutors work well with students from different races, ethnicities, cultures, genders, ages, academic backgrounds, and other characteristics. This session will provide strategies for working with a wide variety of students, many who may come from backgrounds very different form the tutor. Participants will learn specific strategies for working with students from wide variety of backgrounds.

Objectives:

After completing this session the tutors will be able to:

• Explore why students from backgrounds different from the tutor may require special tutoring strategies
• Discuss the specific challenges associated with tutoring each group of students from different types of backgrounds
• Implement specific strategies that are effective in creating a supportive and productive tutoring environment for underrepresented minority students, older students, students with disabilities, and students who may exhibit aggressive or other inappropriate behavior during tutoring sessions
• Identify situations that will require the assistance of a supervisor
• Improve the impact of their sessions with students whose backgrounds are different from that of the tutor

Presenter Information:

Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire is the Director Emerita of the Center for Academic Success and retired Assistant Vice Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University. She is an internationally recognized chemical educator, author and lecturer who has traveled the globe promoting sure-fire strategies to help students, including those underrepresented in science and math professions, to be successful in their coursework and careers. She has delivered keynote addresses or presented workshops at over 400 institutions in 47 states and 11 countries. Prior to joining LSU, she spent eleven years at Cornell University, where she received the coveted Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. Her best-selling book, Teach Students How to Learn, was published by Stylus in 2015. The student version of this book, Teach Yourself How to Learn, was released in January 2018.

More information can be found at .

Description

Self-regulatory behaviors are at the heart of college success. Research shows that self-regulatory behaviors such as the ability to plan and prioritize, manage time, combat procrastination, and set goals positively influence college achievement. Consequently, it is imperative for learning support personnel, including peer tutors, to understand the relationship between these skill sets and student success. This TutorLingo interactive video functions to outline the importance of self-regulatory behaviors for both tutors and tutees: tutors as they balance the demands of their own course work and their new role as tutors; and for tutees as they identify the importance of self-regulatory behaviors and their relationship to classroom success.

Objectives:

After completing this session the tutors will be able to:

• Understand the relationship between