TE 302 Tutoring Plan

 

Tutorting Plan

 

Goals

- Improve student’s motivation to learn material by effectively communicating the value and importance of education

- Effectively teach and aid in student’s understanding of at least one important concept in the subject matter

- Improve students organizational skills (i.e. keeping assignments organized, having assignments completed on time)

 

Establishing a Connection

- open each lesson with a few open-ended questions about the student’s life, hobbies, and goals. Such questions will allow us to better understand our students and how we can better teach them. For example, if they like to play basketball we can weave an analogy between math and basketball into the lesson

- Establish a healthy professional realtionship with your student

- Be patient with your student. They’re going to ask questions and give answers that may sound silly to you and this is because they don’t have as much knowledge as you do so try and be as patient as you can.

- Let them know whenever possible that just because they gave a wrong answer or asked the wrong question that these are still valid questions and answers. Don’t dismiss a wrong answer outright.

 

Pre-Assessment

- Ask student to try to complete some selected work on their own first. That way we can observe how they would attempt to solve the problem with no outside instruction

- Ask well-worded questions about the student’s strategies. This will help them become aware of their own mental processes and teach them how to monitor their own learning

- Discuss the student’s progress with their teacher to understand how the student has performed in the past

- Observe students attitude and contributions to the overall class enviroment

- Observe how the student interacts with their peers in a cooperative enviroment.

 

 

Strategies for Assisting Students

- Modeling can be helpful for understanding certain tasks. Have your student watch as you go through the sollution process step-by-step, while explaining the logical reasoning for these steps.

- Allow student to attempt work on their own, and be available for them to ask questions as they work

- Provide feedback that is immediate, clear and precise, and positive.

- Encourage students go to back over their work and find mistakes they may have made the first time.

- Before starting on an assignment make sure all instructions are clear to the student.

- Continue working on establishing a connection with your student

- If you need to explain or give directions make sure that you keep the student’s attention by asking questions every now and then within your explanation. Keep them engaged.

 

Ongoing Assessment

- work together with the classroom teacher to monitor student’s performances in class, and on quizzes and tests. This will be the easiest way to determine if the student is learning

- Provide the teacher with feedback on the students progression

- Provide the student with positive constructive feedback about the progress they are making

 

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