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Roles and Responsibilities of Tutors
Tutoring Outcomes: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes
Ten Tips for Starting Tutoring Sessions
Tips for Ending Tutoring Sessions
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Tutor Tips
Beginnings, Middles, Ends
Tutoring sessions have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Beginning
- Establish a friendly, helpful rapport.
- Have student articulate his/her concerns.
- Set one or two initial short term goals for the tutoring session, encouraging the student to lead the way: “What would you like to accomplish today?”
Middle
- Promote confidence by acknowledging progress or strengths with verbal or non-verbal positive reinforcement.
- Allow time for the student to think. Learn to become comfortable with silent wait time—it is part of the process.
- Use active listening for clarification and communication.
- Conversation is essential to tutoring and learning. Promote conversation about material as a way to process, memorize, and clarify information.
- Use writing to promote thinking and learning.
- Access the student’s previous knowledge.
- Form questions in order to engage the student in the tutoring process, to diagnose, and to teach.
- Require students to provide evidence or examples of concepts or theories.
- Refer to instructional materials, such as class notes, textbooks, e-reserves, etc.
End
- Have student summarize new information.
- Have students compare new information to previous knowledge and experience.
- Have students articulate a plan for completing tasks independently.
Final Remarks
- Keep complete records of each student visit.
- Reflect on each tutoring session.
- Develop effective tutoring strategies and communication skills.
- Understand that each student is unique, so you will have to adjust your interaction style accordingly.
