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Tutor Training-Advanced |
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TUT TRAIN: ADV |
| CLASS CODE: |
GS 109A |
CREDITS:
1
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| DIVISION: |
GENERAL STUDIES |
| DEPARTMENT: |
ADVISING |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: |
This course does not fulfill a General Education requirement. |
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| DESCRIPTION: |
Advanced tutor training to meet student needs and national certification training in collaborative learning, learning strategies, structuring the learning experience and tutoring in specific subject areas. |
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| CONTENT AND TOPICS: |
Setting Expectations, The Art of Questioning, Critical Thinking Skills, Modeling Problem Solving, Structuring the Learning Experience, Motivation Techniques, Study Skills, Collaborative Learning, Learning Strategies. |
| GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: |
Establishing a series of tutoring certificates. Allows tutors to receive recognition and positive reinforcement for their successful work from an international organization, CRLA. Sets up a standard for the minimum skills and training a tutor needs in order to be successful. |
| REQUIREMENTS: |
Each tutor must complete all of the following:(1) Attend all tutor-training classes.(2) Read “The ABC’s of Tutoring and turn in the accompanying ABC’s Worksheet.(3) Attend scheduled interviews with instructor.(4) Prepare a one page typed evaluation of successes experienced, areas for improvement and insights gained as a tutor this semester. Also type any suggestions for improving the tutoring program.(5) Have four of your students complete a Tutor Evaluation form.(6) Complete a Tutor Self-Assessment Sheet.(7) Prepare a presentation to be given during the last class meeting on successes experienced as a turo and methods or techniques used to bring about thos successes.(8) Must have tutored a minimum of 75 hours. |
| PREREQUISITES: |
GS 108A |
| OTHER: |
The course encompasses fifteen one-hour tutor-training classes that meet once a week for the duration of the semester. |
| EFFECTIVE DATE: |
August 2001 |
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