HERE ARE THE ASSIGNMENTS TO GO WITH EACH SECTION

Tutor Training Introduction. Assignment 1
Please remember to use complete sentences.

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1. What do you feel are the most important characteristics of a good tutor?

2. Who will benefit by your becoming a tutor? Why?

3. Describe any apprehensions you might have about becoming a tutor.

4. Define the ultimate goal of tutoring.

5. What do you personally hope to achieve by becoming a tutor?

6. In your own career as a student, when have you felt most motivated to learn?
What factors contributed to your motivation?
Are there ways you could introduce these factors into your tutoring?

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Tutor Training Five Steps to Being Effective. Assignment 2

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1. How do you prepare yourself for the first tutoring session?

2. Step Two refers to shaping the environment. What does that mean?

3. There are several ingredients for a good tutoring session.
Which one will be the most difficult for you? Why?

4. How can you know your client's strengths and weaknesses?

5. During the first tutoring session, you realize the tutee is there for you to do his/her homework.
How do you respond to the tutee?

6. Give an example of an assignment you might give your tutee, and give an
example of comments you might use to end a tutoring session.

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Tutor Training Techniques. Assignment 3

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1. What can you do to establish rapport with your tutee?

2. Why is it important to know why your student is seeking tutoring?

3. There are several different types of probing questions.
Name all of them and indicate which type will be used most often in your tutoring session. Why?

4. Give an example of how you might handle a wrong answer from your tutee?

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Tutor Training - Listening. Assignment 4

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1. What are the characteristics of a good listener?

2. What is active listening?

3. How will this information benefit you in your role as a tutor?

4. What are reflecting skills?

5. What advice can you give a tutee who wants to improve their listening skills?

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Tutor Training - Study Skills. Assignment 5

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1. How can you integrate study skills into your tutorial sessions?

2. A tutee is always late to the tutorial session and he/she is always behind in their work.
You suspect they have poor time management skills. What do you say to the student?

3. One of your tutees suffers from test anxiety. What advice do you give her/him?

4. Why should students look over a returned test?

5. Do you take good notes? What advice can you give students about taking good notes and, of course, using the notes to help them succeed in class?

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Tutor Training - Learning Styles. Assignment 6

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1. How will the Learning Styles information benefit you?

2. How will this information benefit your tutees?

3. What advice can you give a tutee who is a visual learner and who is having
a very difficult time in a purely lecture class?

6. Find another site on the web about learning styles.
List the site URL and give a brief summary of the contents.

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Tutor Training - Learning Disabilities. Assignment 7

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1. What is a learning disability? (Use your own words)

2. Explain why labeling a student as "LD" could be damaging.

3. What are some of the characteristics of a student with a learning disability?


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Tutor Training - Group Tutoring. Assignment 9

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1. In what ways will a group session differ from an individual session?

2. What problems do you foresee?

3. What are the primary advantages to group tutoring?

4. What skills are required for a tutor to conduct a successful group session?

5. How can you encourage participation by all the students in the group?

6. There are eleven suggested guidelines for conducting a successful group
tutoring session. Which one will be the most difficult for you and why?

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Anonymous Evaluation Form

Instructions: Please answer the following questions as thoroughly and specifically as possible. Know that your answers will be confidential; I will not know who filled them out.
1. If you were to give this online tutor training a grade, it would be an
A
B
C
D
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2. I would recommend this online tutor training to a friend.
True False

3. What did you like about this online tutor training?

4. What did you dislike about this online tutor training?

5. Online tutor training is different from traditional projects. What factor appealed to you most?

6. Please write a brief one sentence evaluation of this online project.

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