Click on the module number below to see a 1 - 2 minute sample. You must have the RealPlayer video viewer (It's free!). Within each module are several topics. There are several examples of each topic from different tutoring sessions. A User's Guide accompanies the series.
| Module / (Length) |
Title |
Description |
1
(10:55) |
The Tutor's Role |
An overview of the the tutor's main roles as a helper, a peer learner, a teacher, and a Tutorial Center employee. |
2
(8:28)
|
Positive Reinforcement |
Examples of verbal and nonverbal positive reinforcement. How to use positive reinforcement effectively. Use of qualified positive reinforcement. |
3
(11:07)
|
Listening Skills |
Examples of patience and active listening skills shown by good tutors. Tutors shown waiting for students to ask questions and waiting for responses after asking questions. |
4
(13:24)
|
The Student's Ideas |
Emphasizes the importance of building on the student's own ideas. Strategies include: encouraging and acknowledging student ideas, yielding to student ideas, active listening by paraphrasing ideas, redirecting student questions, and delayed positive reinforcement. |
5
(15:11) |
Importance of Student Verbalization |
Demonstrates the importance of student verbalization for both student and tutor. Advantages cited include giving the tutoring session a conversational quality, clarifying thinking, increasing the number of student questions, helping the tutor diagnose the learning difficulty, improving student confidence, and helping students answer their own questions. |
6
(13:22) |
Questioning Skills |
Use of questions for both diagnosis and teaching. Questions classified as closed- or open-ended and by the first three levels of Bloom's taxonomy of the cognitive domain (memory, comprehension, and application). Use of Socratic questioning to lead students to correct concepts and procedures. |
7
(17:44) |
Helping the Student Become an Independent Learner |
An emphasis on the long-term goal of tutoring--improving study skills so that the student becomes self-sufficient. Strategies highlighted include: letting the student do the work; offering study tips, problem solving strategies, and test-taking strategies; referring to the text and notes; and encouraging the use of other campus study resources. In addition, high structure and low structure tutoring sessions are contrasted. |
8
(15:06) |
Direct Techniques |
Traditional techniques used when students need more structure. Topics include: giving feedback, correcting errors, pacing explanations so that students can participate, including questions with explanations, using visuals and real life examples, and summarizing key points. |
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