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Goals
The goal of our tutor
training program is to help you develop your own flexible, comfortable
tutoring style that will enable you to assist a variety of students in
achieving the educational goals they have set for themselves. In order to
achieve this, our training program has the following goals:
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to inform you about the
goals and objectives of the Learning Center program and the appropriate
behavior for a tutor;
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to increase your knowledge
and understanding of teaching and tutoring techniques;
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to increase your knowledge
of ways to explain and present the basic concepts of reading, spelling,
vocabulary and writing;
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to teach you effective ways
to conduct a tutoring session including: opening the session,
establishing rapport, diagnosing or clarifying the student’s problems,
creating a supportive learning situation, helping the student focus on
task, and closing the session;
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to develop strategies to
help students master key concepts and basic skills;
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to improve your knowledge
of basic learning and study skills and to introduce techniques to
teach these crucial skills;
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to inform you about the
materials available to assist your students in improving their skills;
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to increase your knowledge
of and sensitivity to students’ different learning/cognitive styles and
the effect different tutoring strategies have on learning;
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to increase your ability to
diagnose a student’s difficulty, develop an individualized learning
plan, evaluate the student’s progress and make any necessary changes;
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to make you aware of some
typical tutoring problems and ways of working through them; and
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to teach you how to
identify a student who may have an undiagnosed learning disability and
to make an appropriate referral.
Basic Skills of Learning
People learn best when
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They are physically and
emotionally comfortable;
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They select or help select
problems and goals of real interest to them;
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The experience is concrete,
realistic, and predominantly first hand;
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They are challenged within
the range of their abilities;
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They are stimulated
emotionally as well as intellectually;
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They are involved in a
variety of related activities;
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New knowledge or skills are
related to older knowledge;
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They have reflected on the
meaning of their experiences and evaluated them;
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Learning is reinforced by
meaningful repetition;
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Their knowledge leads to
some actions related to it;
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They have a sense of
personal and group achievement.
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