 Review of Level 1 topics  Job Description/Expectations  Goal Setting/Planning  Ethics  Paper Work  Communications‘  Tutoring Techniques

 Brain Dominance  Learning Styles  Learning Strategies’

Assessing, Assumptions, and Motivations and/or Changing Study Habits Tutoring in specific skill/subject areas Cultural Awareness/Intercultural Communication Diversity Referral Support Services

 The Definition of Culture  Cultural Awareness  Inter-Cultural Communication  Diversity

Identifying and using resources  Library  Internet  Faculty/Associate Faculty  Tutoring Plagiarism Sigi3

Job expectations

Kinds of communication

Tutor Talk Techniques

Initiate Your reply Evaluate Explain Active Listening Quiet Times

Old fashion questions vs. new fashion  Prompt  Command  Problem Statements More Effective Ways to Initiate Response  Linguistic Flexibility  Degree of Influence

Prompt Command Problem Statements More Effective Ways to Initiate Response Linguistic Flexibility Degree of Influence

Response to an Initiation Thought that underlies the Task  Prompt independence  Information sources  Test utilization Tutees understanding of content  Provide Opportunity

Thought that underlies the Task  Prompt independence  Information sources  Test utilization

Tutees understanding of content  Provide Opportunity

Power of Evaluations  Positive  Negative vs.

Functions of Explanation  Background  Summarizing  Mirroring  Extending  Missing Pieces

Effective Explanations  Sharing  Quality  Respect

 Write a paragraph for each of the following questions and be prepared to discuss tomorrow 1. What five characteristics do you have that will make you a good tutor? 2. Are you nervous about working with first year students? Why? 3. What tips or resources will you offer them to help them be effective learners? 4. What has motivated you to become a tutor?

 MCC Student Handbook, Tutoring Handbook, Policy and Procedures all on-line at  College Reading and Learning Association Tutor Training Handbook, 2003, Lenexas (CRLA TTH) pgs. 6,16, and 41.  MacDonald, 2000, The Master Tutor: A Guidebook for More Effective Tutoring  Webster’s II Dictionary, 2005, Houghton Mifflin Co NY, pg. 245  omy.htm omy.htm