1. STRATEGIES FOR TUTORING ST. OLAF COLLEGE

2. ESTABLISHING A SUCCESSFUL ENVIRONMENT Northfield Reads and Counts Tutor Program Establish rapport with students Develop a healthy environment both personally and academically Helping give students the assistance and tools for success

3. PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Spend a little time each session “catching up” Create supportive and non-judgmental environment Positive, 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.

4. 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 note

5. HOW STUDENTS LEARN Students have learning styles that are as different as DNA! Majority of Children Learn in 3 Different Styles: 1. Visual Learning - Have to see to understand 2. Aural Learning - Learn by verbal cues and instruction 3. Kinesthetic Learning - Hands-on learners

6. 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/equations

7. 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 plot

8. 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 Clues

9. 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 Events

10. READING COMPREHENSION Be Cognitive Coaches As Open-Ended Questions with multiple answers Make students form opinions Make Story Relatable Do the characters learn something you’ve learned in school? Are Characters Similar to people in “Real Life?”

11. TUTOR STRATEGIES Questions?