Tutor Training - Assignment 1

Tutor Training - Assignment 1

The Tutoring Environment

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Please review the on-line material (from our class web page) for Week 3, What is Tutoring? and answer the following questions.

1. What is a tutor?

2. How do (or will) you prepare yourself for the first tutoring session?

3. During the first tutoring session, you realize the tutee is there for you to do his/her homework. How would you respond to the tutee?

4. Refer to the web page “Being an Effective Tutor” to answer these questions.

a) What is meant by, “Tutoring is not teaching?”

b) Step Two refers to shaping the environment. What does that mean?

c) Step Four tells us there are several ingredients for a good tutoring session. Which one will be the most difficult for you? Why?