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Strategies for tutoring
St. Olaf collegeSlide2
Establishing a Successful Environment
Northfield Reads and Counts Tutor Program
Establish rapport with students
D
evelop a healthy environment both personally and academically
Helping give students the assistance and tools for successSlide3
Personal relationships
Spend a little time each session “catching up”
Create supportive and non-judgmental environment
P
ositive, Calm, Assured, Encouraging
Positive Feedback
Never respond by simply saying “good job”
Respond to right answers with another question
You did excellent sounding out that word, what do you think that word means?”
Great Tutoring ≠ Feeding Answers
Be proactive
Motivate. Encourage. Inspire. Slide4
Academic Relationships
Discuss BEING PREPARED for class (bringing notebook, pencil, textbook)
Discuss practicing good listening skills in class
Good study skills
Review ideas and concepts from previous sessions
Help your students learn how to learn.
Provide tools
Assist in finding resources
– media center, making flash cards, etc.
Use student experience to assist
Make material relatable!
Skittles/apples for probability, chocolate bar for fractions
Great Tutoring ≠ Feeding Answers
Your students “hold the pencil” – Don’t do their work, always try to end on successful noteSlide5
How students learn
Students have learning styles that are as different as DNA!
Majority of Children Learn in 3 Different Styles:
Visual Learning
- Have to see to understand
Aural Learning
- Learn by verbal cues and instruction
Kinesthetic Learning
- Hands-on learnersSlide6
Tutoring Math
Break down math concepts into smaller parts
Walk through problems step-by-step together
Write and complete additional sample problems together
Explain concepts within a context of interest
Apples/Skittles to discuss probability
Cater to the 3 Styles of Learning
Visual – charts, pictures, figures
Verbal – Talking through formulas and word problems
Kinesthetic – using coins for percentages
or decimals
Provide more than one way of solving problems/equationsSlide7
Tutoring in reading
Give your Students
Context
Before
you Read
Identify Key Elements of the Story
Title
Author
Characters
Setting
Make
Predictions
Look at Cover Art and hypothesize plotSlide8
Word Recognition
Break down words into smaller parts (
Word Chunking
)
Prefix and Suffix
Consonant Sounds
Use Picture Clues
Word-to-picture associations
Apply Common Phonic Rules
Words with Silent
–e
Cake, Bake, Dive, Home
Apply Stylistic Learning
Using Finger to cover up parts of word (
Visual
)
Use finger to spell and sound out words
Read it Again!
Use Context CluesSlide9
Reading Comprehension
Make Predictions Before Reading
Cover Art, Chapters, Pictures
Ask Questions
Students make Pre-Reading questions based on Predictions
Have students write down questions as they read
Make a Book Map
Characters
Setting
EventsSlide10
Reading comprehension
Be Cognitive Coaches
As Open-Ended Questions with multiple answers
Make students form
opinions
Make
S
tory Relatable
Do the characters learn something you’ve learned in school?
Are Characters Similar to people in “Real Life?”Slide11
Tutor Strategies
Questions?